[drpossum]

While your sentiment is valid, this is the type of argument people make on low code solutions. Which has never worked in reality and never will. There's just too much nuance and detail that needs to be considered when you have to do and optimize real workloads.

[Spivak]

Of course but it pushes the abstraction forward to what we really want. It turns out that most applications don't actually want to mess with IP except as an implementation detail and optimization. Which is why most of the time you don't and you just get some application layer HTTP payload, RPC thing or WSGIish type call on the incoming side and let the ops people deal with the networking bits and it works well enough that people mostly don't complain. The request is that more outgoing services adopt this model where you had it off to your application server and it does the work and just gives you the data you want back.

I don't think it's that crazy, it's just formally standardizing where we're already going.