Veeam Appliance 13 installation/migration does not appear ready for production.

I am looking at moving from VBR to Appliance for clients, however, the initial deployment has not been a great experience for a couple of reasons. I have listed the issues by Veeam appliance iso used for installation.

VeeamBackup&Replication_13.0.1.1071_20251217.iso

• Installation was straight forward
  • RAM: 16+ 500mb per concurrent backup job
  • CPU: 8vCPU
  • Hard drives: 2 x 240gb
  • Hosted on Hyper-V
• Connection to service provider console was easy
• Connection to NAS presented some unexpected challenges to overcome, mainly no support for NTLM, no real issue here as NTLM is being phased out anyway.
• Upon trying to update, the certificate had expired, this was not easily identifiable.
  • Applied hotfix
    • Veeam-updater got stuck in an activating state (restarting)
• After numerous attempts to resolve, removed installation and rebuilt appliance.
  • The below version was released after we downloaded this iso and planned our deployment.

VeeamSoftwareAppliance_13.0.1.2067_20260310.iso

• After taking the learnings from the previous installation, installation was quick and straight forward.
• Connections to service provider was straight forward,
• Appliance licences
• Update process was smooth and easy
• Came back the next morning expecting to manually create jobs and commence first backup
  • Unable to connect to web interface or desktop application
  • Found NetworkManager stopped
    • Manually started NetworkManager
  • Found veeam-updater to have failed
    • Stuck in activating state once more.
    • completed basic attempts to stop/start, however, given both failures, I have concluded Veeam Appliance is not ready for production.

Question: Has anyone else had similar experiences or is this isolated?