The more you advance in a field, the more you control you want to have over the concepts you work with and what you produce. So an expert will look for a more flexible tool, one that gives access to all these concepts. Whether that's a bare bones instrument or a computer program, it will be unsuitable for a beginner.
The questions for me is that do we actually want to master a bare bones instrument (for example a violin) or do we want to make music.