UCI has a TON of effect on consumer options by way of (sometimes irrationally) influencing the decisions of other consumers in a market that is too small to provide a broad spectrum of options and mass production prices.

As for "anti lock" brakes being silly.. I don't know. With the cheap sensor technology available in smartphones now, an anti-endo (more tricky probably, but possible) front brake would allow you to push right up to maximum braking threshold, and yes it could have anti lock for wet conditions too. It wouldn't increase maximum braking but it would increase how close you could consistently and practically get to that max. Why not? If you're going to have wireless shifting, this makes about as much sense. I have to admit though, there's something about a bike as a purely mechanical device that is attractive to me. Sometimes I even want to throw the speedometer off and just push parts down the road. How far? enh.. out to that river over yonder and back.