Possibly.
Certainly in my case, but I know a lot of people who use almost exclusively hardware devices.
What they could do with is for someone to bring out a new version of the MPC (or whatever) which supports it.
Does OSC run over USB?
Yeah, one of my mates sold his mother to buy a Lemur.
Lovely bit of hardware.
Takes a while to get the most out of it though.
Funnily enough, I nearly did a Ph. D on this kind of thing.