I'd Like to Recommend a SONAR Mindset

I wrote a post on my creativity blog once that I subtitled "the importance of having the wrong tools for the job". The upshot was that all too often, we become focused on having the "right" tools (or the best tools, or the ideal tools), or the "right" technique, or knowing how to do things the "right" way. This attitude can be an impediment to creativity.
 
Of course, having good tools and the knowledge to use them well is not an impediment, it can improve results, save time, and so on and so forth - I think the benefits of good tools and knowledge and experience are fairly self-evident, and are certainly well defended in this and other forums. I have many fine tools (including, obviously, the wonderful arsenal of them that make up Sonar) and a certain amount of knowledge and experience myself, and they serve me very well.
 
However, there is also something to be said for the unpredictable results that can come from using tools the "wrong" way, or in some unorthodox way, or in unorthodox or unusual combinations to achieve results. Sure, it can take time and sometimes it leads up blind alleys, but often it leads to unexpected results that can take a creative project in an unexpected direction (and that, for me at least, is almost always a good thing - it's kind of the whole point in fact!).
 
Sometimes it's exactly the frustrating moment of not knowing how to do something you want to do, and having to find or jury-rig a solution, that opens the door to a creative breakthrough. I think, in my case anyway, that happens more often than a breakthrough coming from doing something I know how to do, in a familiar way, with exactly the right tool. That can be satisfying, but it's rarely a eureka moment.
 
The original post, in case anyone's interested, is here: http://fearlesscreativity.com/lego-spaceships/

I always assumed that being a set of tools was how most viewed SONAR now. Some work well, others not so much, and some are non-existent. As to multiple ways to achieve the same task, this forum is rife with suggestions for such. What seems to get lost in the shuffle is functionality that could be significantly improved on existing features, but these are often met with push back or tedious workarounds. Making something intuitive with attention to detail is a rare art.