So why are IPv4 addresses so valuable? Mostly because IPv6 is overly-complicated and a pain to work with. We should have first added a new range where 5 of the 8 hextets were 0000. And found a simple way to write it without ::
IPv6 is not "overly-complicated." It requires some new knowledge on IP address notations and new concepts when talking about DHCP and such, but it is functionally not more difficult than IPv4.
Because it would have been as difficult to update software to use the halfway solution, and then we'd all have to migrate again from that to "real" IPv6.
So why are IPv4 addresses so valuable? Mostly because IPv6 is overly-complicated and a pain to work with. We should have first added a new range where 5 of the 8 hextets were 0000. And found a simple way to write it without ::
Why wasn't that done?