Ah nice, here is what upstream has to say about this:

> Already fixed in nm-connection-editor:
> 
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet/commit/?id=e8a16438d8e3696d5e818d48bd49b9c1f284fd2c
> 
> Note that before this commit it was already possible to manually modify the 
> connection address using nmcli or editing the connection file to also change 
> the DHCP pool served to clients.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763937 ***

The manual setting trick, from
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763937 :

> Yes, that is a limitation in nm-connection-editor, which should probably be 
> fixed. Which also means, it's non-obvious to the user that the range is 
> configurable.
> 
> 
> Try for example:
> 
>   nmcli connection modify $CONNECTION_ID +ipv4.addresses 192.168.5.1/24
> 
> where you can find $CONNECTION_ID via `nmcli connection show`
> Afterwards, verify with `nmcli connection show $CONNECTION_ID`
> 


** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #763937
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763937

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  DHCP settings for network manager shared connection are hard-coded
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