The biggest innovation of the iPhone was capacitive multi touch. Multi-touch prototypes have been around since at least the 80's, and I believe Apple bought the company behind the technology the iPhone uses.Eye tracking and hand gesture recognition have been around for awhile but the tech to implement all that was/is too expensive. VP is super expensive because they packed it with expensive tech from other companies. That’s not unconventional, it’s business 101.
The Meta Quest Pro had passthrough and eye tracking and hand tracking before Apple... but it didn't really do anything innovative/useful with those technologies. They kind of just put them there and said developers should figure out what to do with them. Apple used them to provide effortless UI.
In the consumer space, the only devices not primarily focused on gaming have been the very low end devices that are more focused on watching video, like the Oculus Go and the Gear VR.As for non-gaming use, VP is not the first to promote VR for things other than gaming.
Apple has had tremendous growth since Cook took over. Apple can't grow forever.Notice how Apple went from triple digit growth under Jobs to negative growth this year with little to no growth expected this year?
By your standards of what "innovative" means, Apple has never released an innovative product.