Chuang Yung-ming regrets those days when adapted songs poured out so quickly and cheaply. It was a matter of "bad currency chasing out the good," says Chuang, who says that many outstanding Taiwanese songwriters who wrote their own music were crowded from the market by the ready-made Japanese tunes, and ended up taking up other careers.
回首這段翻譯歌曲盛行的時代，莊永明認為這樣快速而價廉的翻譯歌曲，劣幣逐良幣，阻斷了其他台語作曲者的生路，許多優秀的創作者紛紛停筆改行。