Link to actual poll~
First off, thank you all for participating in my little poll, I really appreciate all of you voting and commenting! It's something that I've been thinking about recently and your responses were very insightful. It will be really very hard for me to write a reply to every comment, so I'll try responding to some that stood out to me in a journal format!
Obvious disclaimer: All this is just me rambling, I'm no authority on anything. Believe what you like, and feel free to disagree.
Comparison can become something that's restrictive and crippling to all creators when overdone indeed. Personally I tend to lean towards art