Creativity is certainly a factor, but as someone who plays bass and guitar much better than he plays drums, I would rather play with a drummer who sacrifices some level of creativity for keeping everything moving on the good foot, rather than someone very creative who can't pull off their ambitious ideas. Actually, that goes for all instruments.
But while there isn't a widely accepted curriculum that will show every single type of playing that's possible, there are standard conventions for reading and writing drum music, and it's widely accepted that for any other type of music besides classical that learning how to play jazz is your best all around bet for figuring out other genres quickly. Even if you want to play like Ringo or Phil Rudd, and I loooooove Ringo and Phil, learning jazz makes learning to play like them much easier, because then all you have to do is listen to their stuff for a while and pick up on their stylistic fine points. And you'll have probably covered music with that kind of brilliant simplicity in your training at some point.