Consider the saxophone. Someone invented that. Or some initial version. Then it was iterated by millions of people; further millions learnt to play it, millions wrote music for it, over thousands of years. Some people were very famously good at it. And now we have spent a trillion dollars so we can get a computer to play something that sounds like Charlie Parker. You could have listened to actual Charlie Parker recordings for almost nothing. Have we cured cancer yet? The fuck we have.
The saxophone was invented in the 1840s by Adolphe Sax and patented in 1846, but I get the point you're trying to make here. :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxophone

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Saxophone - Wikipedia