@sun @eriner and then almost immediately after such a firmware update is released, it will be rescinded in a panic after they realize it's breaking compatibility with many of the countless combinations of devices attached to PCs

this isn't a rapidly implement in the aftermath of an emergency scale project, it's a decades and trillions of dollars in infrastructure project. major breaking changes on the protocol level will largely require new hardware, and no vendor or group of vendors has the production capacity to crank out new hardware at a rate that matches demand from even a slow, sector by sector rollout affecting only the banking industry, then the healthcare industry, etc. software vendors won't have enough competent programmers to implement the changes in the accumulated decades worth of business software.
with the way literally every business and local government in the west spends the absolute bare minimum on IT infrastructure and holds onto everything old until it literally breaks, it ain't happening.
i am still finding hubs used in production, sunman. the fax machine will outlive us all.