They are moving with self-interest, not with a collective interest. Considering what Ubuntu means, that's bitterly ironic as well.
Shame.
I'm glad they are moving with self-interest, and that self-interest is Ubuntu and its users. For example, systemd the launcher and netplan are net good for Linux.
If you're managing a fleet, netplan works for simple network configurations, and it doesn't work with Desktop systems at all.
For anything complicated, NetworkManager is much more capable and not more complicated than NetPlan to work with.
systemd is a different can of worms. I'll not open it here, today.
NetPlan works great for all network configurations.