100%. In fact, let's be less scientific and more creative: 200%! My current job's entire lack of creativity is what's burned me out, made me unproductive (when for 3.5 years I was one of the most productive members of my team), and gotten me to the edge of the Quit Before You're Fired ultimatum. To put it into perspective, I've been coding to the letter of client functional requirements and hundreds of slides of detailed mock-ups so much that the two most creative things I've done at work in the past 4 years have been adding a nav menu filter (i.e. a textbox that runs Array#filter onChange) and converting a render loop of checkboxes into a render loop of multi-select options. Legitimately, a select box and an array filter are the most creative things I've been able to do at my job in four years. It's miserable.
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