I guess there are differences.. a lot depends on how noble a hero you want to make yourself, haha.
In the end though.. nobody is going to care how it was made, by who, if it was a stolen idea, if the right people got paid for it,
whether they used original or pirated software or whether it came from a sample pack or whether you spend all your days in the field messing with taperecorders to capture the rustling of grassblades just right.
The moment it hits the record (or goes online) all that becomes entirely irrelevant to most people.
If it's not to you, you're probably a musician... or should be.
So yeah, it really boils down to what your personal goals are. If waiting around 5 days to capture the right field recording is what inspires you, then that's awesome. Go for it.
If flipping through presets is inspiring to you, by all means.. buy them all. Just don't do it because it makes you the 'real deal', or because you think that's how it should be done ("all the pro's do it this way"... well then, do it better, faster, smarter or cheaper...beat the pro's at their own game)
Aside from that.. I always take the difference between a beatmaker and producer as that a producer is a lot more involved. He might make the beat... as a part of producing the song or album, but he could also produce it with a beat bought from a beatmaker. A beatmaker can be halfway across the globe. A producer should be in the studio with the artist. He's the guy that either helps the artist realise their artistic vision or even helps develop that. On a big enough project, he might not even be hands on at all and really just in a directorial role.
But I guess a lot of those old terms and their roles are really relics of before the digital age. Most electronic artists nowadays do a lot of their own engineering.
Even on a lot of big records from the 70's and 80's the engineering and production is just as key to the end result as the artist's input. "executive producer" could mean anything from being a shifty loan shark, the studio boss, random friends to, you know.. actually doing something on the project.
I'm neither.. I'm a renegade funk doctor.