NetworkManager still mucks around in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and is probably a lot more complicated than it needs to be. I'd like to think that networkd

NetworkManager still mucks around in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and is probably a lot more complicated than it needs to be. I'd like to think that networkd is a better approach with a smaller attack surface but also right now networkd doesn't have the maturity or usage of NetworkManager or crappy network scripts so it would be unwise to suggest that networkd is more secure because of that. Especially when you lump in NetworkManager as another alternative that's done better, if anything I'd rather have no NetworkManager or networkd than have to use NetworkManager on something other than a laptop as random bugs in NetworkManager have personally bit me before. That being said the design of networkd looks very nice indeed and against my better judgement I'm even running it in something that you could almost consider production.