It's perfectly fine to produce boring products. Data entry has never been fun, but it's needed. Creating new algorithms or data structures may be scientificall

It's perfectly fine to produce boring products. Data entry has never been fun, but it's needed. Creating new algorithms or data structures may be scientifically creative. I don't know, maybe it's boring for the scientists and they think reasoning and writing about these is much more fun and creative than implementing them. Anyways it just one kind of creativity. But there is creativity in 'just gluing' stuff together. It's not that simple and there is more choice involved than you suggest.