The ONLY difference between a “star” and anybody else is the size of their audience.
The bar has been raised significantly, people pay to hear exceptional music.
The bar on quality has been raised, everything has been done before.
Musician(s) nowadays are not the same as decades ago.

AAMS is software that is aligned with this and do it yourself.
For everything else Musically AAMS is doing everything you need.
It even may consider to make your homestudio even smaller with lesser hardware.
Tidying the costs even more, still having the bar high.

Gheorghe Stoica Popa