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I think freshwater is faster to innovate, but also faster to jump on every friggin trend that comes along. Flipping through a Bass Pro catalog is nothing but an education in the latest hot trend. Now it's superfast casting reels, drop shot rigs, etc. When I was in high school, there was a trend to use super long rods or evel poles (In Fisherman was crazy about it). I remember one issue of Bass Pro where they said bublegum was the new hot color - so every lure came in bublegum. There's a fine line between cutting edge and blindly chasing cool.
With that said, the law of averages dictates that some of these trends have legitimate fish catching potential, and a smaller sampling of those can be applied to saltwater.
Maybe I'm just cynical, but I think of the freshwater bass crowd in general as a bunch of yokels who long to wear shirts with decals. And yes, I do fish for largemouths occasionally.
Conversely, I agree that sometimes saltwater guys can be too stuck in their ways, which is probably just as bad as the other extreme.
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