alt Hacker NewsI know they aren't very comparable in a technical way, but look at the mindset. IPv6 included decisions that knowingly made it more different from v4 than strictly needed, cause they wanted it to be perfect day 1. If they did HTTPS like this, it'd be tied to HTTP/2.
Most browsers now discourage plain HTTP with a warning. Any customer-facing server basically needs to use HTTPS now. And you're rare if you actually have no ipv4, not even via a tunnel.
HTTP has the leeway to do that because they have an easier technical job deploying updates.
If they only got one shot at changing HTTP, do you think they would have tied TLS to HTTP/2 or given up on HTTP/2 altogether?