When the replacement options are 1) vendor and device-specific, preventing the use of otherwise universally supported audio output devices or 2) vastly inferior technology, yes it should stay the same.
Even then.. You don't have to buy it. I didn't feel HDMI had any benefit over VGA for me for years and chose not to use it. You can do the same with this.
I think the concern is that everything won't be standardized within 2 generations, and instead we'll see the slow death of third party cables. And if that happens, it's likely that increased DRM and reduced freedom will follow.