My criticism of the comparison would stand in either case. There is nothing clear and uniform about the interface to LLMs that match their musical counterparts. Even modular synthesizers with random sources are far more controlled.

I also think it's disingenuous to call LLMs "tools" in the stricter sense of the definition, but I've mostly given up trying to convince people of this. Main reason being that a terrible writer and a gifted writer can produce similar outputs, and for the terrible writer it will be above their average, and for the gifted writer it will be below what they could produce with full control.