If the problem was a new camera which was as yet unsupported then the fact it has a DNG file would do nothing to help the fact that the camera is as yet unsupported, you get weird colours, noise, banding, etc.
Well, past experience indicates you are wrong...the last several Pentax and Leica cameras came out using DNG and they were well supported from the word go without requiring any effort on Adobe or the camera owner's part. I guess you don't understand how this works...the camera maker takes the required metadata and places in the correct location in the file. Presto-chango, the new camera is supported as if by magic! Pretty cool huh? That's what a friggin' standard is supposed to be all about.
However I do not trust Adobe's standard. It's too self serving and to be honest I doubt that it is any more archival in the long run.
Do your homework...go back and read the article about the long term sustainability of digital objects. If you did, you would then understand that DNG is very sustainable...do the reading before you express an ill-informed opinion.
As for not trusting Adobe? Well, let's see, Adobe has granted TIFF-6 to the /ISO, for free...it's used as the basis of TIFF-EP (that's TIFF for Electronic Photography) which ironically is the basis of all the raw file formats out there except for Sigma (there may one or two other oddball raw formats as well). Adobe released DNG because, well, that's what Thomas Knoll wanted to do. He thought having a model raw file format was important for the industry...and who better to do that than a guy that has reverse engineered about 300 different raw file formats? Thomas knows a thing or two about file formats and digital imaging. He's the guy who kinda jump started this whole digital imaging thingie...
You seem to be jumping into this fray without the prerequisite understanding of the technical and political issues. I'm more than happy to engage...but I don't like repeating myself. Read
DNG File Format & DNG Converter and
sustainability factors. If you have questions, ask. Just don't bother to spout out ill-informed opinion as fact.
The whole thing isn't about whether DNG becomes a standard, it's about the fact the industry and the camera companies have to settle the dust and develop and adhere to some sort of standards or an entire generation of photography is at greater risk of being unavailable in the future. That's what it at stake.