Praises to the Creator? Absolutely. To the creation? Nope.
This is a false choice not reflective of the post. The question is about praises to the Creator
which recognize His work in His creation (people, places, and things sanctified by God).
If you find someone who does that you should ask them and let us know.
The graceless approach of the anti-saint, anti-holiness form of Christianity does this. With all due respect, you are doing this when you argue as you have. Either Christ was truly incarnate and by His holy life, death, and resurrection has transformed and sanctified the whole creation, or He is not and He has not. There is no consistent in-between where God's presence in humanity in the very real, incarnate God-man Jesus Christ may mean a lot to you
personally, but the second we talk about His having transformed anyone or anything else it becomes heresy and taking away praise due to the Creator. No. That is an
implicit denial of the incarnation, because it denies the true presence of the Lord in and among His people, the holy and blessed saints -- most of all the holy, full of glory, ever-virgin Theotokos St. Mary, who literally carried Him in her womb, and truly gave birth to God the Logos.
All praise is due to the Lord our God. As we proclaim in the communion hymn, we praise God
in all His saints.
Praise God in all His saints.
+ Praise Him in the firmament of His power.
Praise Him for His mighty acts.
+ Praise Him according to the multitudes of His greatness.
Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet.
+ Praise Him with psaltery and harp.
Praise Him with timbrel and chorus.
+ Praise Him with strings and organs.
Praise Him with pleasant sounding cymbals.
+ Praise Him upon the cymbals of joy.
Let every thing that has breath praise the name of the Lord our God.
+ Glory be to the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit. +
Now and forever and unto the age of all ages Amen.
+ Alleluia, Alleluia, glory be to our God.
Alleluia, Alleluia, glory be to our God.
+ O Jesus Christ, the Son of God, hear us and have mercy upon us.
+++
Would all of the means by which we praise the Lord our God according to the Psalm be similarly rejected, on account of their not being God Himself?
I would not know what to say to that other than that the Orthodox Church does not do "four bare walls a sermon" sort of Christianity, so we may just be too far apart in our conceptions of what the religion actually is to come together on anything. And for those who view things in an incarnational manner (this is the view of my Church, and I have to assume the OP's Church as well, as in this I cannot see how we would differ) it is not only acceptable that we should praise St. Mary the birth-giver, but absolutely necessary as an affirmation of Christ's indivisible union in the incarnation, His true humanity and divinity, and His true presence among us, over and against those who would divide Him.