[cryptonector]

Two very funny things happened then:

a) ASN.1 got XML Encoding Rules (XER), so you can use XML w/ ASN.1 as the schema language, which really, mostly is about supporting existing ASN.1-based protocols but with XML because well, you know, XML was all the rage,

and

b), FastInfoSet happened, which is an ASN.1 PER-based "compression" of XML because well, you know, XML is too verbose and unwieldy.

I [bleep] you not, that happened.

Evidence that there's nothing wrong with ASN.1 the syntax (and that's all it is, syntax and semantics, with a side of pluggable encoding rules where you can make them all up the way you want). Everything that's wrong with ASN.1 is either that which is wrong with BER/DER/CER (plenty), or that which is wrong with people's perception of ASN.1 (also plenty).