It’s actually kinda funny when people say they’d only use Intel NICs (because of their good experience with e1000e), but then you look at Intel’s NGBASE-T (2.5/5 Gbit/s) trash fire or the X710 issues and they’ve just not been good for post-gigabit consumer-ish stuff. Granted, maybe the 19th stepping of i225 finally fixed something, I dunno.