Donny, your absolutly right. It's all about instant gratification and the digital age making it easy for everyone to be a star. Saw it when I tried teaching private piano lessons at a local studio. The kids thought just showing up for the 1/2 hour lesson was it. When I gave them a practice schedule they dropped out. Next door in the guitar room it was "Smoke on the Water" right off the bat.
Its I'm going to be a singer or rapper and be rich and famous.
When I did Piano tuning I saw a few dedicated kids who were playing for the love of playing and residual benefits it provided. Not withstanding it always seemed these were the kids who were also top of their class students because they (or their parents) realized the positive results of putting some work in.

Last week I sat in with the "Billy the Kid " band. 14 year old guitar wiz with his father on Bass and a drummer. Kid can play all the classic rock stuff and kept bugging his dad to get a keyboard player. I did Hammond and Piano and we had a ball. Dad tells me the kid is already bored and doesn't want to practice anymore. Sort of "How come I'm not famous yet" attitude. LOL ! To their credit the parents are on his a** with school so they understand the real world.
So all is not lost --yet