Alternatively, a few of these internal TLDs (.internal, .local, .home, .dev, .lan, ...) should have been reserved from the very start and then we should have in

Alternatively, a few of these internal TLDs (.internal, .local, .home, .dev, .lan, ...) should have been reserved from the very start and then we should have intentionally leaned into the explosion of top level domains because shoving everything under .com was always kind of dumb. (But yeah, arguably what actually happened was a little bit the worst of both worlds and we get to deal with all kinds of fun growing pains until everything is brought to the new standard and hopefully we can stick with that.)