The state of games today
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It reminds me of every time the MPAA relaxes its standards a little. When I was a teenager, they changed the rules so that you could say the word "fuck" exactly one time and still retain your PG-13 rating. Suddenly every single PG-13 movie had one "fuck", usually at some le ebin moment that makes it feel like the entire script was written around this one word.
The fact is, even above average writers are still pretty horrible. The worst thing you can give a talentless person is freedom. Being forced to work around constraints is good for them, because otherwise they just swear and make Current Thing references because that's what their idea of good writing is.
I don’t think you understand the difference between a restriction and a constraint in creative writing.
Mindy Kaling wrote for 26 episodes of The Office. She also wrote Velma. For the latter, she had total creative freedom. For the former, she had to work within numerous constraints.
Constraints can certainly be bad, at which point they can become more like restrictions. But a lot of the time, constraints function to impose structure and direction on a project, and these things are usually required for someone to do their best work.
Look at George Lucas. Constraints = original trilogy. No constraints = prequel trilogy. The man needs someone telling him “no”.
What are engineering standards for bridges?
Those are just constraints said the women only engineers.
The rest is the bridge under the water.
You say that, but after almost sixty years of woodworking my Dad still maintains that he did his absolute best work when he had access to fewer tools and was forced to improvise and innovate, so there's something to what u/WhoIsThatMaskedMan is saying.