Having a new insight that leads to the combination of two distinct ideas is definitionally creative.
You can say this problem needed a low amount of total creativity, but saying it's void of all creativity seems wrong.
You can say this problem needed a low amount of total creativity, but saying it's void of all creativity seems wrong.
Which get to other possibility of having list of distinct things and then iterating over all pairs or combinations. Which I probably would not qualify as "creative" work.