We all agree that some syntaxes are better than others. So you're willing to settle for JavaScript; that's cool, CoffeeScript is 100% compatible. (More than, if you consider that even bad CS compiles to good JS.)
But complaining about novelty reeks of telling us kids to get off your lawn. Some syntaxes are better than others. We haven't found the best one. Innovation is still possible. Hackers innovate. Get used to it.
I think that hackers invent, not innovate. Innovation is too risky to be taken by one or even little group. It is something between an act of changing values (or axioms) of system and the process of that system change.
I also think that innovation is too pompous term in the discussion of programming languages syntax.
Invention is much lesser term and much more nimble. And it could provoke innovation, of course. But for innovation we need semantics more than syntax, I think.
But complaining about novelty reeks of telling us kids to get off your lawn. Some syntaxes are better than others. We haven't found the best one. Innovation is still possible. Hackers innovate. Get used to it.