[kccqzy]

Yea IPv6 folks are indeed against NAT philosophically because it's considered one of the big mistakes of IPv4.

There is a distinction between being publicly addressable and publicly routable. You can have the former without having the latter.

If you want more private addresses, IPv6 has a solution too: use ULAs and not GUAs. Design your internal network so it has mostly ULAs for application servers, database servers and the like, except for the reverse proxy having both publicly accessible GUAs as well as ULAs for talking to the rest of the network.

I personally use ULAs and GUAs concurrently on my network, because I have a residential ISP where my GUA prefix is not fixed.