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Exactly. Last place I worked, we had two whole routable /24s just for servers - it was still not enough to easily give every service routable addresses (especially not as we moved to microservices, and were considering floating ips in addition to per service-instance ips etc).

People suffer from a serious case of Stockholm syndrome wrt. ipv4 addresses and non-routable networks and what-not. There are some (very few) good use-cases for NAT - in most all other cases it just makes everything more complicated - for no real gain (well, you get to avoid buying networking equipment that supports ipv6...). And don't get me started on the "but it helps with security"-crowd... If you need a firewall, get a firewall. Stop conflating it with accidental features of limited address space.

I would have experimented more with ipv6 on my personal server already, if only I could get broadband that actually supported ipv6 (apparently my DSLAM is from the 90s). But now I'm moving, so hopefully I can get that last bit sorted. If nothing else it would appear most 4g networks support ipv6.

For non-personal, non-limited use, one would probably need to set up a fleet of ipv4 proxies/load-balancers -- but I'd be more than happy if I could just move to ipv6 and stop caring about the rest of the luddites ;-)

The main feature draw (on paper) of ipv6 isn't that it enables anything new, it's just that it allows simple stuff to be simple (again). And radical simplicity can be a great feature.