I'm glad that there are (semi-) complicated kits that my kid can build. For his 4th birthday there was one with a 48 step instruction manual. That's an achievem

I'm glad that there are (semi-) complicated kits that my kid can build. For his 4th birthday there was one with a 48 step instruction manual. That's an achievement (others might already build more complicated ones, but he didn't have small Lego before that). After a while these "builds" gradually fall apart and other things are being built. Creativity is not the only thing that can be encouraged. Building complicated things from instructions is also an important skill. And there is still plenty of creativity to be trained while playing with the finished models. I think you can not bemoan that LEGO is so important for raising engineers and then demand that they only have "creativity bricks".