It is a consumer internet eyeball service. Having an assigned routable address is not a thing in many countries, and you really shouldn't expect it as a "feature" in the future.

Eventually the Comcasts of the world will sell off the majority of the IPv4 they hold to the AWSs of the world.

> Having an assigned routable address is not a thing in many countries, and you really shouldn't expect it as a "feature" in the future

I don't see why not in an IPv6 world.

> Eventually the Comcasts of the world will sell off the majority of the IPv4 they hold to the AWSs of the world.

And so died what was knows as "Internet" and AOL was resurrected…

Hopefully only IPv4 Internet will suffer.

> Having an assigned routable address is not a thing in many countries

citation needed

> increasingly uses CGN technologies (90% for mobile internet and 50% for fixed line)

https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/are-you-sharing-...

IME operators startefto do CGN for legacy IPv4 when they started offering v6 by default to mobile & consumer fixed lines.

Fixed line ISPs who use cgnat typically have ipv6, tho.

I's 50%, i would not call that "not a thing in many countries" For mobile, it does not usually matter, you have a smartphone, where you would not host something.

For a huge percentage of the developing world the only internet connection people have is a smartphone, and dedicated residential internet at a fixed address is only for the upper middle class and the wealthy.

It matters for smartphones too (think video calls, IoT applications, and home/office networks that have mobile network as uplink) but fortunately IPv6 is common there.