Some compliance measures (PCI DSS 4, HIPAA) mandate encryption in transit and none penalize it, so making any of that easier and less error-prone seems like a step in the right direction.

The work on cosmic is proceeding and as far as I know when cosmic is done, 24.04 will be released. In the mean time 22.04 still gets updates.

I couldn’t use the current alpha as a daily driver because I didn’t see a supported/intended way to manage starting and maintaining my ssh-agent upon login. Besides that, it felt good enough that I’d use it for more than a few days if I could.