I never teach rules as rules in my classes. I pose them as tools in your toolbelt which you can use when it suits you. The more tools you collect, well, the more options you got.

Ask questions like 'why did classical period musicians stick to these specific rules?, why did later classical musicians ignore those rules?' The history of music is just a long chain of one period disagreeing with and going against the rules of the era before them. So yeah, rules are tools, but do whatever sounds good to you =D

Some of students have created music of a style I think is probably entirely new in all of history lol, it's surprisingly not that hard if you are allowed to fly.

AI music is trapped within the confines of what is already known. It can't fly!