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"Scientism is the view that [...] scientific method [is] the best or only way to render truth about the world and reality."

I don't think the so-called scientific method is a method or algorithm. If I'm working on an experiment and I'm stuck and something good occurs to me in my dream, this is not scientific method but it may help to further the experiment.

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I feel like you’re talking about the ideation process, but my take on it is that science is not necessarily an approach to source ideas but how you experiment and validate them.

Your ideation process could be systematic (your exploration of the problem is itself “scientific” and driven by a rigorous process) or it could be more “artistic” and driven by intuition and inspiration. In both cases you would be doing science if you’re *evaluating* these approaches methodically no matter how you source them.

The trouble with this way of looking at it is that it tends to make all kinds of everyday activities (e.g. baking) count as 'scientific' as long as the person doing them is being methodical. That's fine as far as it goes, but from a historical point of view it leaves it as a bit of a mystery why science as we now recognise it has not existed for most of human history.

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