I guess many people (me included I confess) use NAT as a poor man's firewall. So having a separate link-local "address space" is a feature, not a bug. Also, co

I guess many people (me included I confess) use NAT as a poor man's firewall. So having a separate link-local "address space" is a feature, not a bug. Also, considering how often I have to deal things like somebody setting a wrong static IP on a device, it comforts me that this is not unleashed on the greater internet, but all I can mess up is my own LAN...