Just a little bit of fencing forces the creativity to take shape with measured purpose, such that it creates something rather than flailing uncontrolledly.

Segway into this for videogames :

Here is an example of hardware limitations forcing creative use. on Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)

New NES game called Micro Mages. It's 40KB. They even make NES cartridges of their games.

Today, most devs would make that into a 500MB game.

This is why each console back then had a certain ''feel''.

Is there a console that still has this? Maby the Nintendo Switch for part of the games catalog.

Almost forgot, for worse, Android ( mobile games definetly have a ''feel'' to them : built for macro/microtransactions and advertisements )