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The last thing we need is more electronic components on bikes.
It's shit like this that gave me a headache when I worked on bikes in a shop - give me cables, levers, and serviceable derailleurs or nothing, please!
The obsession toward overcomplicating a simple mechanism is both fascinating and annoying. We have that in car, and it became a death box if accident happens and you lost power, nothing will work other than smashing your window.
At least in bicycle world, it will never became mainstream. A cable/hydraulic works just fine.
You say that but if it's lighter, and sold as the next big thing you'd be surprised what people would buy. Regrettably the freds of the world will eat up what cycling marketers put down for them.
I can picture it now; no hydraulic lag - brake by wire! No air bubbles, no more DOT fluid! Shave grams off your bike! Tune it with a proprietary app!
Yeah, but will it become mainstream where commuter will concern whether they need brake by wire? I don't think so though. It's not in a way like when we go from rim brake to disc brake.
It depends on how hard bike companies want to push it. If a bike has anything integrated with a battery (Di2, AXS, whatever) then I'd imagine that it'll just become normalised, like hydraulic brakes have been (or, for that matter disc brakes!).