I could not agree more. Bringing in experience and judgment (and, imo, intentions) is what makes works meaningfully creative, removing that leaves us with very little left.
Hidde de Vries (@hdv@front-end.social) is a web enthusiast from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He currently works on accessibility standards for the Dutch government (views his own) and is in the W3C's AB. Previously, he worked for Mozilla, W3C/WAI, national and local governments, Sanoma Learning and others as a freelancer. Hidde is a public speaker (all 85 talks). In his free time, he works on a coffee table book covering the video conferencing apps of our decade.