I’d argue that in some applications, this is fine.

It sure can be. Like I said, a bit like an address book has its purpose. But even if it has pages and printed text in it, an address book is not a book anyone would want to read, it's just a stack of pages.

I have not considered UBI to be honest, maybe I should give it more consideration.
What I worry a lot more about is the way 'creativity' (as the OP tried to frame it) is being hijacked and privatised by very few corporations/private interests. The same that pillaged so many of our art history and creations in order to make their own version of it they want to sell us back.