You're right in that everyone should feel free to express themselves here and I apologize for how I came off. It is the commentator's duty, though, to consider

You're right in that everyone should feel free to express themselves here and I apologize for how I came off. It is the commentator's duty, though, to consider that people are reading these comments and it's kind of a disservice to say "I don't have a point" in the middle of a very large comment. You mention email, Twitter, and bitcoin but we're talking about a network naming protocol that only machines use. People don't send raw SMTP messages to each other, it's just the underlying protocol. DNS is used to make addressing easier for people and a lot of time went into the ipv6 spec. Is it harder for people to interpret? Yea definitely. But aside from copying and pasting these hex numbers into config files I really don't see how people will even interact with them. The hosts file is your friend :)