Comment by georgyo

It's only "nasty" because you are not used to it.

Decimal representation didn't make much sense either but we have decades of normalizing it.

Why is 255 the max in an octet?

Why do we call them octets?

I have a /23 and I want to add 10 to 192.168.0.253, how can I do this?

0.253 + 10 = 1.7

0xfd + 0xa = 0x107

Which one makes more sense?

We like the decimal representation because that's how we grew up. It doesn't actually make much sense.