Luckly we're not doing anything of the kind. Just because both are wire techs it doesn't mean they're very related in practice. At least TB doesn't keep burning out my cameras like Firewire did.

On the Apple end of things, Thunderbolt was always sold as essentially the next generation of FireWire

IP over Thunderbolt has been a thing on Macs since Mavericks, over a decade ago.

Yep.

Oddly enough, I started collecting vintage FireWire gear for retro PC stuff.