It's different, sure. But it's not _better_ for it. They made the UX worse to give the scroll wheel a reason to exist, that isn't what I class as innovation.
This article isn't a review of the Rabbit R1. It's a response to a statement Rabbit made denying the assertions in an earlier article saying that the Rabbit R1 software was just an android app.
> they are being rewarded by innovators for it.
I don't really understand what you mean. By "innovators" do you mean something like "early adopters"? "Innovators" generally means people who make something new so I don't see how Rabbit, as the company that has launched this product, is being "rewarded by innovators".
> Stop fetishizing the tech for how they got there.
How is this article "fetishizing the tech" by saying that it could have just been an android app?