Also I never really meant to focus on Lindsey Buckingham specifically, but he was a god of music production back when the equipment to produce a good record was a thousand times more difficult to learn and use. These days we are spoiled by computers that do about 90% of the heavy lifting for us.
Bringing up how important a producer is to the overall quality of a track was a seriously poor choice when trying to compare modern artists to someone like Fleetwood Mac. Not only was Buckingham 1000x the producer most of the noobs that let the computer do the work for them are, but he can play his stuff live and sound good without falling back on "it's the producer's job to make me sound good" excuse.
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