It depends on the technical skills you're talking about. When you learn about music theory you expand your worldview of what music can be. If you just stay in the theory it will be a dry environment for music creation, but if you put it in practice, it will thrive in your music compositions.

Isn't it nice when you understand when one of your favorite artits does something unexpected in the harmony, or uses counterpoint in a way that you want to learn how to do it yourself because of how awesome it is?

A good balance can take you a long way.

Cheers!