Maybe because it’s not an obviously wanted feature? But I’m just guessing. You should request it and see what happens, maybe more people want it. I’ve never even thought about it, since in the case of Podman/docker it’s so “obvious” and easy to just mount network shares to the host first. And in the case of Kubernetes you can just mount NFS shares directly into pods.

Agreed, but not quite perfectly. I’ve been using Tumbleweed for years, but there are a few things to think about.

Whereas I’ve very rarely experienced any problems, the package manager is slow compared to the likes of apt and dnf. The repos are large, but the mirrors haven’t always been the fastest for me.

Also “community”. There are always people in OpenSUSE matrix/irc rooms etc, but they are a rather small bunch of people. OpenSUSE doesn’t have close to the community of, say, Ubuntu or Arch.