Comment 24 for bug 925145

Yes, I went down the wrapper route as well some time ago before realizing it would be far more maintainable to port the entire suite to netlink. It isn't like iproute2 is the only thing that uses that interface. As always, it's just a matter of finding enough time to finish it, but if it means Fedora can behave consistently with every other operating system again it will be well worth the effort.

You're right about cloud-init being understaffed. Most of its main maintainers have their hands full with wrangling all the different cloud platforms and operating systems out there that they need to support, so technical debt like this often goes neglected.