This seems odd to me, as a consumer I remember the days before USB was around, and it _really_ sucked. Maybe USB is less lovely if you are a driver developer, but thats because its pushing more work away from the consumer and onto the driver developer. As a consumer, USB has been pretty awesome.

edit: I suppose you could argue that something much better than USB could have been possible, but thats how it is with technology, the standard that takes off isn't necessarily the best, its just one thats _good enough_ and gets traction somehow.