Yeah, but a big part of that is the whole money thing. There’s plenty of creative people, but they’re working for big companies whose priority is profit. The suits want to play it safe, and do what has been proven to make money in the past, instead of taking risks on new, unproven concepts, and if they don’t like what the creative people are doing, they hold all the cards: either the creative types change what they’re doing, or there’s the door, bye bye, nice working with you. It takes a lot of clout to go against the suits.
We don’t have any soulless corporate overlords who we have to appease with big sales numbers to keep doing what we do. Downside, we also have a smaller budget to work with.