also, that's the thing

going from 32 bits to 128 is such a big jump that it goes from whack a mole game to infinity whack a mole

that's why we don't have ipv6 everywhere yet

it's been 30 years since the standard was mostly finalised, and we are still waiting for everyone to stop running 10 year old firmware that didn't implement it

why?

because fuck you, obviously