Making the world a dystopia isn't "innovation".

Sorry state of things indeed.

> You're right, we should stop innovating entirely, because bad people and slippery slope fallacies exist in the world.

There are plenty of areas where innovating would help people tremendously, with much fewer slippery slopes. Just because people ask you to be mindful of the areas where abuse is already the default use case doesn't mean there's nothing you can do.

> innovating

Innovate what, exactly? The demise of democracy? Authoritarian rule? Technology innovation ain't societal progress, and we should aim for the latter.