> As a hobbyist in the last decades, you could learn about IPv4 and DHCP in a couple of afternoons.
The same is true for IPv6! Granted, beginner-friendly documentation is a bit harder to find, but I was able to set it up for my home network through OpenWRT in a couple of afternoons as well.
In the process, by necessity I also learned something about setting up local DNS properly, which in the end has been very beneficial also for IPv4 hobbyist use cases.
The comparison with HTTP1 vs. HTTP2 seems a bit unfair – it was never possible to write plain IPv4 packets to the network via Telnet/nc.
And if you're talking about the availability of tooling: Don't forget that IPv4 is several decades more mature than IPv6 :)
The same is true for IPv6! Granted, beginner-friendly documentation is a bit harder to find, but I was able to set it up for my home network through OpenWRT in a couple of afternoons as well.
In the process, by necessity I also learned something about setting up local DNS properly, which in the end has been very beneficial also for IPv4 hobbyist use cases.
The comparison with HTTP1 vs. HTTP2 seems a bit unfair – it was never possible to write plain IPv4 packets to the network via Telnet/nc.
And if you're talking about the availability of tooling: Don't forget that IPv4 is several decades more mature than IPv6 :)