I agree with both of you, somewhat, and here is why.
Some of the most creative things that I have done came out of nowhere. I didn't think about it, I just did it. For example, if I am taking a photo, I will think about compositional rules at the start of the process, but more often than not, throw them away, or modify them on the fly without too much thought at all. Another example, I was using a tool, which will remain unnamed in case I can develop it at some point, and thought, wow it would be great if the tool could do this, without that happening. Now that is taking an existing tool and modifying it, but I didn't really think of it, it just kind of came to me.
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