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.)