Humans have the tendency to always want things that are extraordinary. But sadly, we don't invest a significant amount of time in building the same. And there are reasons as to why we don't(constraints like time, money, family, distractions).
Hence, the entire human race is at this phase where we need a lot of 'X' or we need one excellent form of X. But we are also a race which think nothing can ever be good enough and its my personal opinion that this is what causes us to settle for quantity over quality.
Also, there are super innovations but they are far and few primarily because its not EASY but secondarily because every field gets saturated and we think we have hit the glass ceiling. The irony is that glass ceilings are supposed to be an invisible and unacknowledged barrier, so we are stuck in a world where we subconsciously limit ourselves.
There is a part of me that also feels that creativity is being curbed because our brains are geared for thinking logically. From the point we are born, the urge for logical answers rather than creative answers is what makes us, us. If kids grew up with the idea that the sky is blue because humans decided to paint it that way and the Sun is a giant ball filled with 40watt bulbs, we probably would have some creative solutions for questions we don't have answers to right now. So we either need to promote creativity or logical thinking and its near impossible for someone to develop both of these skills.
p.s - when I say creativity, I mean really eccentric creativity as thats what gets us 'super innovates'