This is one reason that I'm still upset about the failure that SCTP has ended up. It really did try to create a new protocol for dealing with exactly all of these issues but support and ossification basically meant it's a non-starter. I'd have loved if it was a mandatory part of IPv6 so that it'd eventually get useful support but I'm pretty sure that would have made IPv6 adoption even worse.
Well we have QUIC now which layers over UDP and is functionally strictly superior to SCTP as SCTP still suffered from head-of-line blocking due to bad acknowledgement design.
