Comment by Bluecobra
I think it was bad timing. We might have been able to migrate to IPv6 wholesale when the Internet was much smaller in the early 90s. One thing that comes to mind is the kumbaya moment when everyone got together to switch from BGP v3 to BGP v4 to support CIDR.
> We might have been able to migrate to IPv6 wholesale when the Internet was much smaller in the early 90s.
In the early 1990s IPng/IPv6 was not yet invented, and when it was being considered they realized a flag-day (like (mostly) happened with NCP->IP) was unlikely:
* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1726#section-5.5