[mgdm]

I was concerned that this might remove USB Ethernet support entirely, but I believe that the protocol prefered for this on Linux is called CDC-ECM:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65321405/linux-cdc-ecm-d...

This may not help if the objective is to connect to a Windows host, though.

[bsder]

I was going to ask if Microsoft finally supported CDC-ECM in Windows 11.

Your comment seems to indicate that the answer is still "No".