And that is an absolutely insane state of affairs as well. I remember when my Packer playbooks stopped working because Linux kernel dropped floppy disk support

And that is an absolutely insane state of affairs as well. I remember when my Packer playbooks stopped working because Linux kernel dropped floppy disk support and that was the method that was being used to inject the config on vmware. 99% of Linux installs are done on some hypervisor... ISO files are absolutely awful for this use case. Yet everyone keeps using them because the tooling is already jumping through thousands of hoops to make it work.