> Anecdata: Most of the artists I know hate the word.
Not surprising, since most of the "creative" work has nothing to do with creativity. You don't have much room for creative expression when you're paid to paint UIs or make magazine layouts or make cheap landscapes for sale.
The artists I know say that creativity doesn't pay the bills; it's something they'd love to do, but struggle to have time/means for.
I can't get paid for the musical intellectual property I create, so I get paid for the software intellectual property I create.
Meanwhile everyone around me coding is listening to streaming music at $0.000003 per minute not imagining that one day their intellectual property might be similarly valued....
Anecdata: Most of the artists I know hate the word.