Nope, it is many millions of consumers who are responsible for all this crap. This one guy is just an important part of a team feeding them what they want to eat.

For values of "virtually every" where "virtually every" means "surprisingly prolific for one songwriter, but nowhere near 'actually every'".

do you play music? do you have the ability to play his pieces? or to compose either at or above his level?

when I was learning piano in the late 90's, I bought classical sheet music for training, and pop sheet music to play for friends and family. at the top of most of the pop pieces said "max martin"

classical music taught a lot to me, but so did max's music. point being, inarticulate insults such as saying the music is crap, are not worthwhile criticisms.

Sure, I think the guy is extremely talented. No doubt about it whatsoever. He uses his talent, though, on a format that is much simple and the results aren't very long-lasting, I guess because of the simplicity/lack of depth. In 50 years, who will still listen to the classical pieces you were learning? And who will still listen to the pop pieces?