Honestly, though, NM is useless on a server or VM. I don’t know why they still have that kludge installed on 90% of machines.
Having said that. Lennart’s Cancer is junk from junk process. It WILL be adopted by every distro but PCLinuxOS because no other distro is putting effort towards stability and reliability.
I’d hoped that moving to Microsoft would allow IBM to re-evaluate the shit shoveled into its declining enterprise product, but that’s not looking likely given staffing and IBM’s ancillary priorities. RHEL only needs to be Good Enough so it can sell certs and classes and AAP and other make-work.