Agree, it's hard to say when was the last time Boeing did something innovative - on the scale of SpaceX - in space technology.
In 12 years SpaceX roughly managed to build two rockets and one space freighter cheaply - economical "first", to produce stages with e.g. high (comparing to industry standard) dry-to-wet-mass ratio, to produce a kerosene engine with, again, pretty high thrust-to-weight - and run a development program on vertical landing for the first stage.
Don't see anything comparable to that from Boeing.
Not just run a development program for vertical landing but figure out a way to make customers pay for much of the testing, too. Part of what's so brilliant about their reusability system is that it can be included on many regular launches without any additional risk to the payload. So instead of having to make expensive special launches just for the test program, they get to fire satellites into orbit and carry out testing on a flight the customer purchased.
In 12 years SpaceX roughly managed to build two rockets and one space freighter cheaply - economical "first", to produce stages with e.g. high (comparing to industry standard) dry-to-wet-mass ratio, to produce a kerosene engine with, again, pretty high thrust-to-weight - and run a development program on vertical landing for the first stage.
Don't see anything comparable to that from Boeing.