I agree to that in many ways. That doesn't take away from the fact that there are some great players there. It's the business side that screwed things up.
Country music for the most part, is just pop music with a southern accent. Nashville is just a music factory. Very few artists actually write their own songs all on their own. The publishing companies on Music Row have songwriters on staff. There are hundreds of studios in Nashville. Day in and day out it's musicians in there cutting songs for the songwriters to sell to the big artists, all in the name of the mighty dollar. That is how Chris Stapleton and Brad Paisley got started. They were staff songwriters.
A lot of the bigger studio players like Bukovac, Jerry McPhearson, and Kenny Greenburg are not really true country players. They were rock 'n roll players who came to Nashville looking for work. You can ask those guys, they will tell you they don't like a lot of the stuff they play on, but a man's gotta make a living.
Ed