I am absolutely convinced that the main thing holding V6 back is not even that it’s a full shift rather than an incremental upgrade. It’s that the addresses are too long to easily remember or type and the text representation is unwieldy and aesthetically ugly.

Anyone who has ever done net stuff for a living knows that you type or copy paste addresses constantly. Whenever I say this to V6 evangelists they say “we’ll use DNS” which is “tell me you’ve never been a net admin without telling me.”

I’d love for V6 to get traction but I think something needs to be done about the usability issues before it will happen.

Even little details like the fact that in no terminal does double clicking on a V6 address properly select it is a huge problem. Yeah you might be able to change that but that custom config won’t be there on the next machine, etc.

Even seemingly simple usability problems are death to adoption.