[Waterfall]

What is more innovative? More Mhz? Vector calculations? JavaScript? Depends what's important to you.

The new CPUs don't put much more power, but they're crippled by the mitigations (old ones too but weren't when you used them), use way less power, many are fanless (saving more power), and it's not like anyone was struggling with not enough power on computer anyway. Intel had innovated a lot, especially their video decoding and graphics.

I'll take a crappier CPU with a better screen any day but luckily I don't have to choose with these.