Yes. Clumsy. It's an unusually awkward design choice to have the software detect if another specific application is running in order to trigger the behavior, in

Yes. Clumsy. It's an unusually awkward design choice to have the software detect if another specific application is running in order to trigger the behavior, instead of just giving the user the ability to configure it. In my opinion this whole new dhcpleased/resolvd setup is poorly planned, as it contrives the gruesome trick of being both a privacy/integrity problem (no user control over ISP DNS making its way into resolv.conf) and a userland villainy problem (forcefully altering behavior based on whether some other application is running, no matter what the user's actual intention is for running that application).