My previous employer had legal, routable addresses for every device on our network for years. A lot of network admins must hold them for prestige or sheer cluelessness.
IPv4 + assigning network blocks through ISPs only + NAT and the world is fine. Take all the rest of the unused/misused address space and there is no problem.
Agreed. Think it would happen, though?
*Ding!*
Exactly so.