Perhaps the pitot redesign brigade's thrust is analogous to the engineer with a solution looking for a problem (and most of us have been guilty of that at times ..)
As at least one poster suggested a few posts back, if the underlying problem is found to be pitot icing, then the appropriate first tack is to
(a) look at icing requirements in the design standards,
(b) identify and redress the Standards deficiencies and
(c) move via AD (as appropriate) to fix the presumed heating deficiency.
Such, at least, chains up the initiating problem.
That is not to suggest that the Standards ought not to be revisited in respect of automation paradigms and the philosophy of degraded modes and flight deck presentation.
If, and that's still a big if, the fallout is along the lines of the crew's being overwhelmed by mode degradation and associated alerts, then one foresees a period of Regulatory navel gazing (both certification and operational standards) in the coming months.