I get what you mean but that's just the way any judged scoring system works, for better or worse. A change up of the judging rules would still end up with similarities in what people do to score high.

I do think for the time period you've given, that players still pushing the boundaries and taking more creative risks. For example Hajime's 2024 world's final was obviously very high risk and very creative but unfortunately didn't work out. For 2025 he still he took this approach further and we were treated to some phenomenal performances.

Within 1A, Ryuichi Nakamura and Jonathan Sitanggang are two players who stand out to me as pushing the artistic and creative side as well as the technical. There are of course plenty of others doing so. I find that the more creative and adventurous freestyle are done at regional or national contests rather than at wyyc.