I think it is awesome that these "DAW-less" tools are showing up and getting good. There's a lot to be said for them in many contexts.
However, I don't think that they are going to eliminate the current concept of "a fairly big piece of software running on a relatively general purpose computer that is used for recording, editing and mixing".
However, I don't think that they are going to eliminate the current concept of "a fairly big piece of software running on a relatively general purpose computer that is used for recording, editing and mixing".
Por que no los dos, eh?