Or as Joe Walsh said, "They say I'm crazy, but I have a good time."
BTW - We're not going crazy, we're already there. Or as it's been said here in forum, "Bat shit crazy". Heh
BTW2 - I just saw devil's post in the German thread about modemmanager & NM. He said, (Translated) "The removal of the NM packages are also related to the Gnome transition.".
And, as far as I, a KDE user can see, it's still in progress. Thought I'd mention it here.