There's no such thing as USB hotspots

That was its name on my old Sony phone though.

Also you can still use the NMC protocol if your Android version is recent enough.

Yea but it's not a justification.

It's an insecure Microsoft protocol, though this probably wouldn't have mattered for a lot of people.

That's why a DE warning would be enough. Linux is just making terrible decisions recently. I guess it'll continue until major maintainer changes take place and that won't happen without life losses because nobody is going to leave the project so we might lose many of the Linux's benefits in a few years imo.