if someone says 'that I should have been using a more "User friendly" distro like Ubuntu' then reply to them "Then stop advocating Linux and explicitly say what when you say 'Linux' you actually mean Ubuntu".

But on topic - the latest Gnome on Rocky 9: if you open Settings then the first... tab? is WiFi settings. For some reasons when the Gnome builds the list of available networks it demands sudo password prompt. But with or without entring it you would be prompted the same password again. And again. And again. No, you can't navigate to some other tab while the prompt is open. No, you shouldn't be asked for sudo/UAC/whatever elevation to display the list of WiFi networks.

'User friendly', my ass.