You're confusing tradition with innovation/invention.
Not a bit. Those processes rely on tradition as a foundation from which to build forward. We didn't go from dark caves to the electric lightbulb in one step. Without tradition as a foundation, the Point B of innovation lacks a Point A to start from.
Besides that point, there's also this: Not all change is
de facto 'change for the better.' Remember that The Dark Ages were also 'change'. National Socialism was, when it first emerged on the scene, 'change.' AIDS was, at one point, new. New and different does not = better, just by virtue of being new and different. Sometimes 'shit that we already know works just fine' is... just fine.
Sometimes, it even happens that people with little or no knowledge of history and tradition think that something is 'innovation' or 'progress', when it is in fact just the opposite of progress. EVs, for example, are not as new as people seem to think they are. Electric vehicles started out as the norm before they were replaced with internal combustion technology.
The first electric cars appeared long before the earliest gas autos, and the history of electric cars is littered with innovative takes on four-wheeled transit.
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