Agree. I don't see Art in any form as a competitive sport.
Can understand. We have a tenant, a female who'd make a great surrealist composer if she / when she puts her mind to it. She went to a close-by college as an undergraddy but hated most of the curriculum. I happen to know her mentor, however, and over a whisky he suggested I might help her. Introduced us. I don't think I've been much help but at least she felt free and could stomach the college stuff..
He too doesn't like his profession, agreeing with me that you can't "teach creativity." He gave her the degree all the same because he appreciated her passion for composing. I should mention that as a male I ditched a college course part way through.