I'm someone who got into the games industry when I was young, and was burnt out by it. I went and had a career in computers and raised a family. For me I'm doing this game jam to teach myself how to get a game out the door. I want to make money at it without stupid marketing people telling me what makes a video game sell. Because I want to make games that are fun and will hopefully make some money.
You're right about push-button crap and AI slop. So the only thing I can do is try to make bespoke games that are good enough that people will shell out some money to play them. And hopefully someday I will have enough money to pay a musician to create the game music I want.
As for my results, yes I got 12th in overall and music. But TBH, based on the comments I received I think my AI music hurt my scores in other areas. That, and not perfecting the gameplay a bit more. I'm currently halfway through writing a post jam article, and I think I my be copying large parts of my former reply into it.