Comment by comfydragon

It really isn't. I mean, at a very basic addressing level, sure, IPv4 addresses and IPv6 addresses are just a sequence of octets. But at a network infrastructure level they are quite different, and IPv6 is (conceptually) designed for large-scale, hands-off deployments. See: SLAAC, NDP, DAD, GUA/ULA/link-local address scopes, unicast vs. multicast vs. anycast, etc.