Fascinating commentary!
It took me some time and conferring with others to figure out what was going on.
Ultimately, to simply things, we explain it like this; everything in Chinese is in a box. Deviate from the confines of the box and it's no longer the same box. In other words, it cannot mutate. It is fixed and locked down.
Without mutation, good or bad, you cannot figure out winners or losers. Innovation, in general, is built on every innovation that came before. We push out the margins of the box. In Chinese, outside the margin is a new box. If no box currently exists, well, maybe they just figure it can't exist. In English, outside the margin is something that can be two or more things or be the same box, just bigger. I believe this bakes rigidity into Chinese brains, artificially limiting innovation.
Again, this is not saying it can't or isn't being done, but when innovation does come from Chinese, it is almost always from the multi-lingual. Maybe it's just the smartest Chinese, or maybe it's because English or other languages gave them freedom from artificially induced restraint from their native language.