Yeah, it would have been nice to have, but that's all. Instead of requiring IPv6, the internet has evolved in a direction that tolerates disconnects and reduces its own IPv4 address consumption. It will probably work fine for the next 20 years at least.
In the 19th century, New Yorkers worried that the city would soon be buried in horse shit because of increasing demand for transportation. The horse shit apocalypse never materialized, because transportation evolved in a way that stopped relying on horses. Now we have a different problem, of course.
In the 19th century, New Yorkers worried that the city would soon be buried in horse shit because of increasing demand for transportation. The horse shit apocalypse never materialized, because transportation evolved in a way that stopped relying on horses. Now we have a different problem, of course.