Certainly, certainly.   (Software Engineering, like all other forms of Engineering, is both an Art and [Applied ...] Science.)   I certainly look forward to your further thoughts about “stifling” environments, and perhaps more-generally about the necessary balance between “creativity” and “process.”   Please, take your time.

All that I can do, frankly, is to try to ignore “the bullies among us.”   This profession that we mutually chose turns out not to be such a simple thing, so there is much to talk about.   I do look forward to what you ... and others ... will have to say, my esteemed colleague.   (And, I mean that.)