Films Outside The DCEU Is Just Creative Laziness

Making standalone films is not a sign of creative freedom. What it is, is creative laziness.

I hear the "creative freedom" bit from a lot of people, but it absolutely is not, and I'll tell you why.  A major focus of several areas of architecture, a highly creative enterprise, deals specifically with working with and adding to an existing structure.  Being independent isn't considered a more creative project by any means, and in fact quite the opposite in most cases.  Whether it is adding a monument to the D.C. mall area, or completing a modernizing renovation of an old structure, creatively building on an existing structure is being creative. Going alone with something unrelated is nothing more than giving up.