Sure, but the toddler is doing it because they are not mentally capable of walking, synthesising visual data into a coherent world model or communicating with w

Sure, but the toddler is doing it because they are not mentally capable of walking, synthesising visual data into a coherent world model or communicating with words and evolution has prepared them with the understanding that it is do-or-die on those fronts. Their motivations are urgent and important, but not adult. And the point of their creativity is to figure out how to conform ASAP - adults can't really harness that energy because by and large they are all already great at conforming (vs a toddler, anyway). I suspect these others are motivated by different concerns. It is the difference between a baby dropping a block to work out gravity - which everyone does - vs Newton dropping a block to work out gravity. One of those is an adult motivated by an interesting form of creativity, and the other is something that everyone can do at any age, they just don't need to because they figured it out at the time. The motivation here is critical to assessing the action.