True, constraints promote creativity, the form of a sonnet or the rules of a fictional world or 8 bit graphics. But in this particular case, they used the new

True, constraints promote creativity, the form of a sonnet or the rules of a fictional world or 8 bit graphics. But in this particular case, they used the new strengths of the device that enabled things not possible before (removing constraints), yet thought their idea might be too much for it (hence the prototype), and their later idea was too much for it (needed a bigger screen). So their ideas didn't benefit from the constraints. An upcoming test of your hypothesis is the PS5 100x SSD. Will it promote or stifle creativity? The sense of the "magical" is the newness. Miracles, when commonplace, become commonplace. (Though I am still in awe at billion/sec pocket electro-computers... OTOH no one else is, it's just a cheap phone).