Why are these things considered harmful?

Because wpa_supplicant exists.

Is there a gui frontend for it?

i've implemented the d-bus protocol and i still have no idea what it's for

and yet it is still a slow buggy bloated piece of modern UX bullshit

Yes, it's called network-manager-applet.

So that's a sarcastic no?

wifi-menu for wpa and nmtui for NM are convenient cli interfaces

B L O A T

Have systemd as a hard dependency (that measn you cannot have it without each other)

same as above and also being stupidly buggy years ago

same as NetworkManager, and subjectively some people doesnt like the aesthetics and workflow of it (UX autism)

Looking all outdated and from WinXP era, although very stable and lightweight (and easier to theme than the alternatives).

and mostly ebcause it's a solution for a non-existant problem

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You can use KDE without systemd on Gentoo, and that depends on NetworkManager. But it's still shit.

I'm using KDE Plasma with Devuan and it's smooth as silk, everything works great.