The unlimited version is almost never the best one.
Tom Morello found his guitar sound with the equipment he had, not the equipment he wanted. He made a conscious decision to adapt to his environment rather than require his environment to adapt to him. That choice produced one of the most recognizable sounds in rock.
I broke my hand. Typing fell off the list. The workaround: voice notes on dog walks, captured straight into Obsidian, processed later by a skill built for exactly that. The constraint produced a capture workflow I hadn’t thought to build. Now it’s part of the arsenal.
My commute is dead time by design. No meetings, no decisions, no output expected. The only thing that fits is long-form reading. That slot has produced more compounding thinking than any unstructured hour I’ve tried to protect at a desk.
The constraint isn’t the problem. It’s the brief. What you do with it is your art.