Comment by gethly

Likely because people need boundaries in order to be creative. If you have no limits, you will very likely go beyond what is valuable or useful. But if you are giving parterres within which you must operate, then you are able to fully utilise your talents to come up with the most creative solutions.

One good example are hollywood movies with budgets now in hundreds of millions of dollars and little limitations, ending up being total crap.

If you'd be an author and you would have no limits, you would never finish that manuscript.

And so on. Humans simply require boundaries, otherwise we go crazy. It's like with food, too much of a good thing turn into a bad thing.

And so to bring it back, if you are a graphic designer making your own portfolio, there is no client to put you in a box within which you have to operate. And so despite how much talent and skill you might have, the outcome will likely be quite bad.