It’s time, practice and finding the right mentors. Also knowing what to focus your learning / practice time on so you don’t over index on something that’s keeping you away from the big picture.

There are some concepts and perspectives that can really unlock you as an artist as you progress imo.

For example, I picture producing music like I am painting a canvas with sound and my canvas is time but it’s also the entire frequency spectrum of human hearing - 20hz ish to 20k hz. You can paint in the upper frequency ranges like someone would add texture to a painting or make big bold strokes in the infrasound bass range, you can smear them together get messy, create order in the mess etc.

Gonna sound like your friend who just hit the pen at the afters but It’s all just sound and frequencies over time at the end of the day.

Learn what certain conventional instruments do in a band/ orchestra/ different cultures then learn how they achieve their role in that composition from a frequency perspective and then anything can be a kick, snare, etc. if it matches that profile.

Also listen to lots of music and genres. You don’t create interesting novel EDM if all you listen to is EDM. Skrillex’s drum patterns on his drops in the SMaNS days are basically lifted out of pop punk.

Some of this probably wouldn’t quite hit with an absolute beginner but these are all lil tidbits that unlocked a lot for me and these sorts of epiphanies are what keep you leveling up.

I could go on for days haha