So.... adding a feature
YOU don't want automatically makes the
ENTIRE environment a kiddie program? Oh excuse me, a professional kiddie program.
There's a lot of features in Logic 9 I don't use or necessarily care for, but I don't mind them being there because I don't have to use them. I'm still debating whether to even get Logic X at this time, so I have no idea how this drummer thing behaves, but I do know that I very often use basic tempo repeating beat tracks while I lay down the beginnings of a song as it makes it much easier to keep perfect time and get at least some inkling of rhythm started. I eventually remove (well mute) the track and put in my own drums. So I'm thinking if this thing can put down a real time beat track it might be useful in the early stages of a song. I surely wouldn't expect or even want it to do my drums for me. OTOH, not everyone out there has good timing and drumming skills. Not everyone out there is creating entire albums by themselves like some of us are either and might want some basic fill to toy with a piano part or whatever and pass it on to the next guy in the band or whatever. In short, I don't see the point in slamming a feature just because it seems like a toy at first. I still use my Roland Digital Piano's own built in beat tracks to play around with ideas in the living room as I find it helpful to hear some ideas to a pop or rock beat or whatever. Not every tool is for recording. Sometimes tools are good for helping creative ideas form.
So everyone on here who uses Logic (even professionally) is also a great singer in addition to being an ace drummer, master guitar player, concert pianist, etc.? I originally intended to write songs to sell to publishing companies for other artists to potentially pick up, but I discovered I could actually sing pretty well. I've touched up pitch on long holds in a couple of spots with Autotune, but for the most part I didn't need it on most of the songs. That doesn't mean it's not a useful tool or even to generate an electronic type sound (on overkill). Admittedly, there are a lot of "artists" out there that are famous and can't sing a note (image seems to be more important, although I wonder if that's as true as it was in the hey day of music videos and the original MTV where if you didn't look good (or at least freaky), you couldn't sell a tune to save your life (shame for real music and musicians, but obviously selling crap is the name of the game, not appealing to the high end snobs (i.e. J.K. Rowing isn't stinking rich because she's a great writer in line with Shakespeare; she's stinking rich because she wrote an appealing kids story).
I used to think the same way about automatic SLR cameras back when I was into photography in a big way. It made it so much easier for people to get "decent" (and the occasional great) photos, that it seemed unfair to those of us that know how to manually focus, expose and even develop film (i.e. real skills). Then came digital and it made it that much simpler to edit photos in things like Photoshop, take a zillion photos at high speed hoping to get a good one, etc. etc. It removes a lot of the old school skills that used to be REQUIRED in order to get truly great photos and starts to blur the lines. Basically, if you can frame things, you can get by these days (at least in daylight). Even if you can't frame things, you can always crop them later. Hell, I still find it irritating. The main difference between my brother and I is he'll take 2000 photos on a trip and 20 of them will look great and I'll take 200 photos and nearly ALL of them will look great plus I can take photos (night photos, long exposure effects, etc.) that even modern cameras don't generally do on their own.
In other words, no auto-drummer or even some future auto composer feature is going to write a song like Rock of Ages or Billie Jean. Apple does know there's money in selling to hobbyists and dabblers (probably a LOT more than to professionals as Final Cut X has shown).
