As does Fibre Channel and a myriad of other solutions out there. The point wasn’t to bring every “but X exists” or “but Company A said in this blog post they solved it” response out of the fog, but to point out that these issues are incredibly fringe to begin with yet make the rounds a few times a year every time someone has an “epiphany” about the inefficiencies of TCP/IP in their edgiest of edge-case scenarios.
TCP isn’t the most efficient protocol, sure, but it survives and thrives because of its flexibility, cost, and broad adoption. For everything else, there’s undoubtedly something that already exists to solve your specific gripe about it.