As hilarious as this sounds, it's actually not _that_ bad. It doesn't seem like 6E is a completely new standard so much as it is an existing standard being used

As hilarious as this sounds, it's actually not _that_ bad. It doesn't seem like 6E is a completely new standard so much as it is an existing standard being used on a new frequency band. In that respect, it wouldn't really make sense to call it "Wi-Fi 7", and the "add an arbitrary letter onto the end of the version number as an indicator of a different variant" naming scheme is already pretty well understood thanks to smartphones doing the same thing for years. (And Ethernet cables, come to think of it.) I suppose they could have incremented the version number anyway just to avoid the need for that sort of awkward naming scheme, but I'm not sure if that'd be any less confusing. It'd be simpler sure, but also somewhat misleading. In any case, it's still way better than the previous scheme of using non-sequential letters of the alphabet as version numbers.