My friends in Media Studies would talk about the visibility of "the aparatus". My design training would probably call it the "xyz tool look" or the "xyz tool aesthetic". But yeah, I think it shows a maturity in the technique when people begin to use the tools in less obvious ways.
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That's interesting. I never really thought about that before being a musician and not a visual artist. I suppose it is like over producing a song or auto tuning a vocal to the point that it sounds more like a machine than a human.