Reminds me of IPv6... When I was 17... (2007) and learned about it I was very hyped to see it become mainstream.. I still don't know why we go out of our way to only use IPv4 to this day. Its even older than when I discovered what IPv6 was.
but what turned out to be a big problem (not enough IP addresses for clients) was solved by CGNAT and a simple market (for servers)
of course it's important to understand that it was cheaper to deploy thousands of CGNAT boxes than to upgrade the whole Internet (and corresponding software)
It seems cheap consumer ISP hardware works absolutely fine these days, but prosumer/small business devices sometimes still have trouble with hardware acceleration. You can sometimes get that acceleration when you flash OpenWRT so the problem seems to be a lack of effort from companies that should do better.
Also, IoT crap tends to disable IPv6 (for saving a few kilobytes of ROM I think) but that stuff is better off locked behind six levels of NAT anyway.
