This is a weird ponzi-scheme like comment.

If you are a creative director, you have people working under you.

How do you all get to be creative directors?

Because not many people go to art school and pursue that route.

You'd be surprised how many high-level creative positions are available, especially in games. It's kinda political to get a position of course. But being an artist is pretty sustainable if you're willing to put out work for a studio of that sort.

An art education is very different from a design education, though they are very often separate tracks at the same institution.

IME, the people that wanted to go to art school, weren't interested in what is taught design school, and vice versa.