Some counter-points: ad-hoc networking (addressing, names, ...) is kind of a pain still, especially cross-platform. Affordable Ethernet is slow compared to mo

Some counter-points: ad-hoc networking (addressing, names, ...) is kind of a pain still, especially cross-platform. Affordable Ethernet is slow compared to modern USB-standards. For many things USB does there isn't one "that's the equivalent networking protocol". Modern USB does a lot of alternate stuff over the same connector, which makes it a lot more complicated, but also useful. All that means it seems unlikely for this to happen and a bigger hurdle than "abandaon a bit of precedent". Given computers already have Ethernet today: how many peripherals with USB do you see where there is just one Ethernet-based option somewhere on the market, and what does that cost in comparison? What's needed to adopt them? To take some examples: we have storage devices with Ethernet. We have cameras with Ethernet. How do they fare with USB-based ones in your comparison?