Creativity vs Carpentry

Was watching the "创意-whatever-it-is" show on tv just now, the wannabe clone of the hit Japanese variety show "超级变变变". While the program is supposed to showcase creativity (创意) of Singaporeans, I can't help feeling that the contestants had missed the whole point altogether. Week after week we see all the competing groups toiling over their sometimes massive, sometimes elaborate props, as if that is all there is to creativity. Compare this to the original show, whose contestants could score high points with props as simple as a box and their 2 fingers, I couldn't help telling me bro, "this is carpentry, not creativity."