Comment 2 for bug 2012081

Lukas made a call for testing on discourse 2.5 years ago,
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-testing-improved-wifi-via-iwd

We also did change network-manager to recommends iwd over wpa during the kinetic devel cycle for a few weeks but undid that change before beta.

We haven't seen real sign of user adoption from the discourse feedback or bug reports though and the users who ended up getting iwd via discourse or being early dev cycle adopters are likely to be technical enough to uninstall iwd if needed (wpa should still be installed since we never tried to remove it from user systems since other component still make use of it directly)

The new version is in Debian testing and fedora 37/38/39 so should have got some testing (though it's not installed by default in any of those distributions so probably used by a low number of users)

The change would land before beta which give us time to get some testing and iterate if needed.

We believe that having the new features available for iwd users now in Lunar and being able to get feedback of a less outdated version if we decide to switch going forward are worth the risk if the late landing.