I agree that it should seem obvious to introduce a "UUID with sortable timestamp first then a bunch of random bytes" much earlier, probably alongside v4 or something. But then the complaint is, "why did it take many decades before they made this variant", not "why did it take them 7 iterations".
Sure, you are technically correct (as we all know, the best kind of correct), but I think the point is maybe that the comment far above about "7 iterations" was meant to be more "emotionally correct" than technically correct.
