the main downside of network-manager is it tries to manage everything by default and I think you need to do some stupid fiddling with udev and its configuration to make it not do that, but that's not a fundamental design flaw
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you've read the original tweet, right this is the exact attitude i cannot stand
I know, I know, but tbh dumping some init strings into wvdial isn't exactly rocket science. All I'm really saying is MM shouldn't be installed by default and sure as hell shouldn't be a hard dependency of anything. But if you need it by all means.
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I agree with you re: NM (and I have the same feeling about pulseaudio). It's just that I've never, ever personally needed MM and yet it's caused me to waste an hour debugging weird serial behavior, several times.
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I have reluctantly come to accept pulseaudio because it makes my Bluetooth headphones actually work properly (switch outputs to them when I connect, back when I disconnect, without restarting anything)
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"dumping some init strings" that you get where? on the web? that doesn't work because you need a modem to access it? good plan
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the same goes for not having it in the default install btw that said, I think "not doing anything to the ports without explicit user action" is 100% reasonable and is what it should do
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