Tezos is often referred to as the first “self-amending” blockchain, which routinely adapts and adopts new features natively and automatically via its unique on-chain governance mechanism. This protocol functionality allows the system to coordinate the selection of new updates though popular voting, integrate the new updates that are selected, and compensate the developers who proposed them. [1]
[1] https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/what-is-tezos-xtz-governa...
Although the article is talking about the SafeDollar contract, there were some general points about crypto / blockchain in this thread that I was responding to. Tezos is one example that has on-chain governance, which is why I mentioned it.
If you want to provide more info about how the on-chain governance is really just done through soft forks, and why you think that's not innovative, I'd be curious to hear. I'm not huge on Tezos but I think they do some interesting things.