no, the objection was from network administrators of very large networks aka the Internet. At that time, TCP/IP itself was also failing to scale, so I imagine

no, the objection was from network administrators of very large networks aka the Internet. At that time, TCP/IP itself was also failing to scale, so I imagine there was a lot of blame in every direction. "Heroic" efforts at cleaning up different aspects of TCP/IP and then DNS are the only reason we have a world network now. chattyness on local networks was not awful, and you can read here how UCLA and others managed fairly large networks after Appletalk 2.0x zones were implemented.