While the electric guitar has been the weapon of choice for expressing rebellion, anarchy, revolution, and change, guitarists themselves are the persons most abhorrent of change that walk on this Earth. Nothing that looks or operates "too different" could possibly catch on in the first couple decades (It took the Flying V, what, 30 years?).
Digital recording, home recording, and computer editing presets are the future. Eventually it'll be cheap enough for even the most self-respecting of guitarists.