> As I mention in the post -- creativity often involves remixing existing ideas

This is carrying the weight of your core argument. It’s not wrong but it’s not completely correct either.

Creativity involves remixing but is not all remixing. Is it? Not even all humans are at the same level in this. Number of attempts means nothing if you don’t add features that the LLM desperately needs to be grounded in the reality, or perform logical reasoning beyond RLHF.