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IPv6 is all well and good until you need to read of an IP address for a call or write it down if you don't have copy-paste UI access.
Then you will pine for the days of four octets.
Most addresses do not use full character lenght. Your localhost is ::1 for example. Local network can be configured for shorter addresses.
I get twice long addresses over poking the NAT and doing several reverse proxies as for now.