Well 2 comments to you.
Firstly, nobody can lose creativity, nor can they gain it. Everyone is infinitely creative, they just need to try to access it.
As you believe your losing creativity, your mind decides to shut off that part, otherwise nothing would stop you being uncreative...
Also, really DB will need to shut up the whole zerobots thing...Change the goal to getting animal_minimalis to evolve to perform a complex behavior...Because life had a basic area to start from......Had some functional genes to start...then evolved, thats what you need to get to happen.