There is nothing wrong with introducing kids to an endeavor that still requires good old fashioned hard work. Music (like all arts) really does require thousands of hours of practice, and that isn't a problem that needs to be solved by replacing it with the video game version.

You could easily make the same argument for any discipline. Chemistry shouldn't be about learning boring periodic tables, it should be fun explosions. 99% of ppl are not trying to become professional novelists, so English classes should focus on comic books.

If some give up along the way because they don't enjoy it, so what? I gave up on baseball at a young age because I didn't like it and wasn't good at it. Does it matter?