I don't have a reference handy, but it's been shown that people are fundamentally ambivalent about creativity. Everybody agrees that creativity is a good thing

I don't have a reference handy, but it's been shown that people are fundamentally ambivalent about creativity. Everybody agrees that creativity is a good thing, but when it comes down to judging a creative idea, most people will be negative. The reason being that creativity necessarily involves uncertainty, which is discomforting. I say this because the things the author mention aren't exclusive to software development. I do buy that software developers have less people skill on average in dismissing creativity than some professions (say PR) though.