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Comment by mahboi

15 hours ago

Everything in v6 was for a good reason, but it was targeting now-outdated use cases. Separately, there's no good migration path from v4. They should've kept the v4 address blocks in v6, and following the natural consequences of that, it'd be way easier to migrate. But they didn't do this with v6 because they were trying to solve the address fragmentation issue upfront, which again had valid reasoning but in hindsight wasn't the right move.