Also what about editors? In my experience writing graphics this way (via XML files) scares off 95% of the artists. Programmers can do it, but they make crap art. A designer who is good/interested enough in doing these is very rare.

So unless there is excellent support (can make animations, generates nice code,..) by Adobe products it wont catch on.

Most vector tools export to SVG, and you can use SVGO[1] to clean it up and optimize it.

1: https://github.com/svg/svgo