[jariel]

Came here to validate that.

"Overthink it' first, and then smooth it down to its essential simplicity" is usually the process.

FYI the reason I don't like the musical analogy is because in that scenario, the tooling can easily overwhelm the creative process. You get caught up in the tools and literally never think about the problem.

I suppose a software analogy be might be using 1000x various frameworks to try to do something: you'd never get past the frameworks.