EXPERT RESPONSE
So here's the story: The developers found that a 128 bit address was the most user unfriendly thing in itself anyway; whether it was in decimal or hexadecimal didn't really make a difference. But because processors are faster in processing hexadecimal, they chose this over decimal.
The user friendliness comes from using domain name system (DNS) to do name-to-address mapping. So all you need to remember is a name, not even numbers.
But if you are the kind of person who can remember 128 bit decimal addresses for all routers and servers in a network (as some network engineers do in the IPv4 world), you will have to tell me how you do it.
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