Creativity/Ability are in you head.
From the online idiom dictionary: A 13th-century French proverb observed "mauveés ovriers ne trovera ja bon hostill" , ‘bad workmen will never find a good tool’, and variants of this early saying can be found in English until the mid 19th century until the emergence of the modern version. I remember it as "Tis a bad workman that blames his tools".
Bear with me:
Moto analogy.In the video link below, a similar controversy resulted in a grudge match. A motocross magazine editor/expert class rider, Warren Johnson, asserted that a Professional motocross rider, Ivan Tedesco, was faster due to his superior equipment. Ivan stated that Warren could ride his pro MX bike, and Ivan would ride an XR650L and still beat him.
The pro bike is a 65 HP beast weighing less that 250 pounds, while the XL650L is a street bike weighing more that 300 pounds with about 45 HP and DOT tires. With equal riders. the street bike wouldn't be in the same ZIP code as the pro bike. If you've got 6 minutes for the video, and if you like motorcycles, just skip to the show, I laugh every time! The pro bike is obviously crazy fast, and the street bike is obviously not! Ivan hams it up using his TURN SIGNALS when he passes and beeping the horn! LOL
If you don't care to watch the vid, what happens is the pro rider on the street bike makes the magazine editor look pretty stupid on the pro nationals bike, lapping much faster on the worst possible bike.
This took more text to convey than I thought, sorry, I do know this is a pentax Photography forum. But I always refer to this video when this subject comes up.
It's not your gear, it's your grey matter.