[Pamar]

(Aikido SanDan, ~28 years of practice, still going to the dojo 3 times a week).

Interesting point, but I don’t think Aikidoka have any special talent for that: we use a small number of techniques and what changes is the way you use them in response to different attacks/holds.

Also, you tend to work on your specific Ryu (school) technicsl curriculum and nobody goes around “inventing” new locks.

(Some argue that Aikido is not really adapting to modern world nor cross-pollinating with other martial arts due to -arguably excessive - reverence for tradition).