I agree with what you say above about needing to turn off the Critter and the Editor while we are creating. And I feel the tension, too, in my own work as a Maker, between my creative impulses (shaped as they are by canon and my own upbringing in western society) when I do things like write long stories that barely pass the Bechdel Test or engage problematic tropes and so forth. I do try to go back and apply the critique later, and I definitely do my best to own my choices if I get called on them. (Fortunately I am low profile enough that it hasn't really happened to me. Yet.)