Rancher desktop has a bloated electron GUI and and just keep in mind that Rancher as a company is going the way of dust - already about as relevant as SuSE.
You hate to see it but this is brutal, correct, and brutally correct.
What do you see as a replacement for Rancher? I haven’t seen any offerings that out of the box work behind a firewall. Tanzu Mission Control failed this, D2iQ Kommander fails at it as of 2.0. EKS Anywhere doesn’t have that either afaik.
Rancher is going the way of dust? Most dev organizations I'm familiar with either use terraform + EKS + helm + pipeline, or replace a lot of that complexity with Fleet.