This topic was has been in the air for a some time, ever since the BitcoinQR project, then again with When Taproot, and also with conversations around adoption of multi-language recovery phrases.
There is now a group forming around investigating BOLT12 and async payments, to see what may/can/should be done around promoting their adoption. For more info, join the #bolt12-async-ux channel in Slack.
Issue:
https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/398
Links:
http://bitcoinqr.dev
http://whentaproot.org