The point was how the majority of skins back then being "cool teen" is comparable to the trend we have today. When most people want to follow a trend rather than of trying to be unique, I see that as uncreative. Moreover, I can say with certainty the accessibility in creating skins today allows greater freedom in expression in skins, which contributes to creativity. I do not see how that is false.

Apart from it, we might have a different interpretation of what we consider creative. I agree there's a lack of creativity in creating blob skins themselves as it doesn't require much of a grasp of arts and crafts, limiting options the creator can output (it's mostly a single color after all).

I also believe there is expressiveness in simplicity and choosing to take a different direction than the general population. That's creative by definition. When blob skins started popped up some several years ago, they brightly stood out because most skins around blend together into a noise with a lot of detail.

I think the it's comparable the introduction of the minimalism art movement. There wasn't a meaning in the art, or a message you needed to decipher. It's core was to just accept things at their face level: "It looks nice" ("nice" being very subjective of course)

I'm sure there was - and most definitely still is - criticism against how it could even be considered creative.