There has always been talk of DH making a break away from the UCI (DH1 etc), but I think that is about it will ever be, just talk, I don’t think DH would benefit from going it alone really it needs the UCI’s organisation and logistics to work as an international level competition, and XC is happy enough under UCI control so where’s the real benefit to breaking away?
you could perhaps accuse them of lacking vision but I think the UCI will only take note of Enduro if it becomes a big enough entity to have the sort of commercial scope they want in any discipline they are going to promote TBH.
Just look at 4X to see just how this pans out, lack of commercial interest = lack of UCI interest.
of course if Enduro develops into a large and well supported discipline independent of the UCI I doubt there would be much support for then submitting to UCI governance, so in short Enduro ends up as an independent self governed sport essentially unrecognized by the UCI… which could make the UCI seem a tad irrelevant, but it all comes down to that ‘if’…