Seriosly? Overcomplicated protocol to make it very hard to bit-bang and thus pay USB-IF for every chip, every logo. There was already 100mbit Ethernet at that time, just add power wires and use existing network stack in software, but how can you squish money from it?! Ofc they needed something new proprietary, overcomplicated, with terrible reliability. USB is the curse of modern hardware.
Seriosly? Overcomplicated protocol to make it very hard to bit-bang and thus pay USB-IF for every chip, every logo. There was already 100mbit Ethernet at that time, just add power wires and use existing network stack in software, but how can you squish money from it?! Ofc they needed something new proprietary, overcomplicated, with terrible reliability. USB is the curse of modern hardware.