Oh, I'm just talking about how it was seen at the time it was introduced. It was never going to be a permanent fix, but it was kind of seen that way, after a lot of weirdness with DVI extensions and proprietary stuff and pushing VGA way beyond its practical limits.
This lasted right up until multiple DP versions started showing up, and then it became transportable over Thunderbolt and then USB-C, but with the version of DP dependent on the chipsets on both sides, and... suddenly everything is terrible again.
USB-4/TB3 _may_ become the next "it fixes everything!" standard... until people want 8k screens.
Based on the history of display standards, you will be waiting a while.
Displayport was meant to be the magical works-for-everything standard... then the various versions of Displayport started showing up.