alt Hacker News>HDMI, DP, etc. are so successful because they are by out-of-the-box backwards compatible with their predecessors
Takes on Hacker News can truly be wild sometimes.
I certainly don't recall being able to use DP on a VGA monitor without some sort of adapter!
You missed the part where DP didn't come with it's own Audio Codec and GPU architecture. Of course, I am exaggerating, but the point is that the problem with IPv6 is not just that it suffers from bad design on merit, it also critically suffers from scope creep. We wanted a larger IP space, instead we got network discovery and globally unique cookies as a bundle deal, with a whole lot of other crap.