> As I got older I sort of dismissed them as antithetical to creativity Yah, there's a lot of criticism of the "directions". My kids build big elaborate modul

> As I got older I sort of dismissed them as antithetical to creativity Yah, there's a lot of criticism of the "directions". My kids build big elaborate modular buildings from the directions... and then leave them as-is... And then try to build equivalently complicated things from loose bricks (sometimes copying a little bit of a mechanism or a trick they've seen elsewhere). I think the instructions are great. They just shouldn't be the be-all, end-all.