It used to be a pretty common practice in the community in UC16 days to (ab)use console-conf as network-setup GUI when you had a device that needed to be moved between WLANs regulary (note that there wasn't even documentation about netplan in the early days of UC16. netplan was used in Ubuntu Core way before it entered the normal Ubuntu distro as a default tool).
I guess that habit simply stuck around because people fond instructions via google ...
It used to be a pretty common practice in the community in UC16 days to (ab)use console-conf as network-setup GUI when you had a device that needed to be moved between WLANs regulary (note that there wasn't even documentation about netplan in the early days of UC16. netplan was used in Ubuntu Core way before it entered the normal Ubuntu distro as a default tool).
I guess that habit simply stuck around because people fond instructions via google ...