You could level much the same criticism at most of the entire TCP/IP family. That it is stretched, pulled, prodded, and poked into all sorts of roles for which

You could level much the same criticism at most of the entire TCP/IP family. That it is stretched, pulled, prodded, and poked into all sorts of roles for which it is not especially (or especially well) designed. And yet, the aggregate experience of "the Internet" is that having a few extremely well-known, highly standardized protocols used by virtually everyone and in every possible way often trumps having "better" custom protocols. The failure of MAP/TOP, and the current dominance of common Internet protocols even in special domains against specialist protocols such as Fibre Channel and InfiniBand--it suggests you have to demonstrate something MUCH better in order for it to realistically compete against highly standardized approaches.