Design is art that people use.
Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.
Typography is what language looks like.
Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy.
Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ?