I have a project I am working on that will be innovative and related to ENC. Until that is released, the same claim could be made about most coins. This started as a scrypt coin and was upgraded to scrypt-n when it was determined that asics would be hitting the market. Also, openssl updated immediately. After including KGW, which was so innovative it had be replaced, I'm a bit hesitant to just go throwing new ideas into the code base.
If you have suggestions, I would be happy to entertain them.