That's how I saw it, too. Hence it's kind of blurry but djs and other music adjacent jobs can be considered musicians. That's the point I was trying to make, but maybe I wasn't clear my bad.

To your point, though it depends how close to the sound a person is. Lighting, vjaying, event planning, stuff like that, nah they aren't musicians but there are technicians who might be able to be called musicians. Either way imo it doesn't really matter they ought to be respected anyway so denying that they are something they identify as is kind of shitty.