Groundbreaking =/= good. Innovation is not, in itself, a good thing. There have been more innovative games that are complete junk than I can possibly hope to count, and you can get some absolutely stellar titles that don't innovate at all.
I agree, you can. Final Fantasy is not one of them, however.

I'm on the other side of this. People under react to EA's practices. EA continues to make horrendous decisions that are obviously anti-consumer and harmful to the industry, and the games themselves. But people just complain about it instead of simply ceasing to give EA money, which would shut down the problems almost immediately.
The problem is, plenty of other game companies do the same thing, or slightly less bad. As long as they do it quieter than EA, however, they can pretty much skate by unscathed. EA has become the industry scapegoat.