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I think people are missing a main point here. There is nothing wrong with IPv4, it works. It just can't scale globally anymore, it doesn't have enough space.
If you are running a worldwide network with millions of nodes, IPv6 is essential. But for things that are smaller than that, it becomes less essential. But what's the best metric for adoption, how many small offices or home labs adopt it? Or how many large, worldwide networks?
When IPv6 was created, NAT technologies had not yet really developed yet. That development stretched out the utility of IPv4 and allowed it to be perfectly sufficient even today. Back then, you bought a public IP for every node on your network. Seems crazy now, because you can put an entire enterprise behind one IP.
IPv6 was created to allow that same provisioning concept of every node having a public IP. Well, we don't really need that anymore. So we relegate IPv6 usage to machines like cell phones, but if a human has to utilize the address, we give em an IPv4.
I’m my home lab I don’t want every node to have an external IP. I like that NAT forces me to provision holes for specific purposes and between reverse proxy and limited port forwarding I get all of the functionality that I need.
I know I can get similar security using firewall rules and DNS but it is hard to want to replace something that just works.