Largely because we have a long inversion of how government should act. It should have never needed "approval" in the first place, government should have to seek to ban a product, innovation, etc based on their own creditable evidence the thing is dangerous.

Instead of we adopted a position of everything being illegal until it is blessed by a regulator, it is in effect guilty until proven innocent.

Until we put government back into the proper context innovation will continue to be inhibited