Will we ever see higher spec chips in the Arduino

Even today, lots of sketches work on Uno but not Mega.

Yes that is my point. You can't expect to see someone convert all the libraries ever been written, that is never going to happen. Look how many have not survived the move to IDE 1.0 and correction for that is simple enough.

All they need do is to write equivalent ones to the ones that ship, at the moment, with the basic IDE.