He should join the Ardour project. Or go to work for Ableton or Bitwig or Presonus or Digidesign or MOTU or any other DAW manufacturer. Or any video or image editing application. Or get involved with more or less any complex, "creative" native desktop application.

All of the stuff he feels he is falling behind on? Almost completely irrelevant in our domain.

That’s interesting. I wonder if the models will improve on these kinds of tiny niches?