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It's pure money grabbing. They could just as well avoid collisions by specifying a UUID for the SysEx ID, and then everybody could generate their own independently.

I guess you can use the free IDs, and then place the uuid in the stream or packet. Everybody happy.

In the USB case that simply translates to rogue VID/PID by vendors that don't want to pay the fee.

Steinberg tried the same thing with VST (2, not 3). No one uses (relies on) it.

At the end of the day specs are only as good as adoption. If there is a reliable workaround (or even easier way to do things) than using the UUID then people will do that instead.