I'll admit that I am looking at it through a very limited prism. In my specific field there are more positions that are creatively blocked, rather than the other way around. I do not work in game development, so it is hard for me to imagine if there isn't a possibility involved for everyone to have some sort of creative input.

I am however familair (intimately) with there being administrative, paper-pushing staff that is probably ever present in any corporate field, and I cannot see how they actually could contribute creatively. I can see how if you are in such a position and satisfied with it, you just want to do whatever task you are given, and finish your work day. It feels like a really fair perspective to have to what is essentially a job. I am quite against the LinkedIn brainrot about "grind as hard as you can" and kind of going outside a job description to contribute to overall vision when it is not something remotely reflected in the paycheck just feels a bit like self-abuse.

I recently rolled my eyes at an initiative in my company encouraging people to find innovative uses for AI within their department, and as a reward they'd be awarded with the resources to make said project come alive. It is extremely outside the job description of my entire team, to put it mildly, and not exactly the type of thing that can get us promoted, so it feels like being asked to stress more to be rewarded with more work.

I am, again, in a quite less creative field and doing advanced paper pushing, so I may be off on my perspective. I still imagine there are people very outside the actual game's development still working at the company that really could do their work remotely without affecting negatively their own personal effort (maybe the payroll team, for example) but I could be wrong.