Wasn't Yamaha's "mLan" ever meant to take over?
With the speed and girth of bandwidth of firewire (effectively mLan) and USB2 readily available, already with a huge user-base, there's a massive opportunity to update to a better standard.
Five-pin DINs on synths and stuff could still be retained for backwards compatibilty, of course.
Access have done well in that regard, imho. With their smoothing of CC data to avoid the 'stepping' which was available from the outset (albeit being part of their innovative synth programming and design, rather than changing the MIDI standard), and now using USB to transfer MIDI and several channels of audio.
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