.. and hot-wire anemometry has been around a long time, (was playing with such in 1973), initially for turbulence (good bandwidth) and useful for boundary layer work.
I'd imagine that if hot wire (more likely hot film) techniques were up to the environment and didn't degrade, they'd be used in 'some' capacity or other (robustness/longeveity problems in i.c.engine AFMs are not unknown)
KISS may well be relevant to the persistance of the pitot-static solution because it is so easy to read dynamic head (Q) directly, giving IAS without further ado