"We" hold innovators in high regard because of technology and the way capitalism neeeeeds technology. We live under capitalism so we are taught to love innovation. By maintenance alone a capitalist (person who has so much he no longer needs to work) cannot out run the herd, he needs to innovate because the other capitalists are also innovating. Since labour has already been squeezed to the max, they seek technologies that increase the output of labour, or even "better", make labour obsolete.

Workers should be weary of innovation, but they have been taught to love it, and thus they do :)