Wouldn’t it be great to have a modern MIDI interface that also acts as a powered USB hub, oh and has individually assignable ports so you can have 8ins and 8outs or 1ins/15outs - or anything in between, even better individual ports assignable to merge data or as a standard “thru” box - Perhaps a standalone mode for live use? It would be really cool if you could add multiple interfaces for really big setups, and have a status LED per port to show config and activity. The icing on the cake would be an attractive and robust case.
Oh I probably mean something like this: https://www.esi-audio.com/products/m8uex/ 