Fun is a feeling, so how one can have an argument that something is or isn't fun - that would be a category error, no?

I think you've got a good analogy there, though, because many great and/or famous painters have used teams of junior artists or apprentices to produce the work that bears their names.

I'm reminded also of chefs and sous-chefs, and of Harlan Mill's famous "chief surgeon plus assistants" model of software development (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_programmer_team). The difference, of course, being that the "apprentices" in the current period would be mechanical ones.