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So instead, it won’t roll out widely for a decade plus due to active incompatibility, therefore rendering its improvements pointless for all but a tiny number of early adopters?

As I said, dumb.

Next version will likely include degrees of backward compatibility or workarounds, would be my guess. Since you can’t even iteratively roll it out!

That or routers will have parallel radios and 2x SSIDs, which would confuse everyone and add even more to the costs.

Yay for IPv4 vs IPv6 on wifi.