cyptocurrency without any innovations is doomed to be dead,sooner or later.
This an absurd way of thinking. A good coin, must have a lot of support, be fair, and gives a lot of trust, and all the features must be fair and well design. This is not we have seen in 2014, e.g., a new X11 coins stating a great innovation, and when we look at the 'masternode' implementation, the only goal we have is stealing 20% of the POW operation. What a great innovation... The innovation word sadly hide a lot of scam operations.
You are right, 'innovation' is not the important thing for alternates; And good, and well design improvement, are ported to other coins, e.g. vertcoin. And bad design features target scam operations.