Another problem with this just being replaced with a package that is not
feature-compatible:

Requiring a switch to unicast also necessitates firewall changes across
the entire network, if multicast or broadcast was previously in use.

Firewalls between the clients and the NTP servers will either require a
stateless ACL entry added for UDP/123 bi-directionally, which is
undesirable, or perform inspection on udp/123 packets toward the server
so they can maintain state entries for those UDP sessions every time a
client polls the server. The configuration change is simple, but it's
not nothing.

Sites with limited available WAN bandwidth (think analog modems, low-
speed wireless links, fractional PRI, BRI, satellite with analog modem
uplink, etc) can also experience a negative impact from the extra
traffic, including more packet loss, higher delay, more clock spread
among the systems behind that link, and impact to other traffic that
needs to use that link. A single multicast or directed broadcast over
those links achieves reasonable clock synchronization with minimal
impact and can be QoSed high enough to be unlikely to drop when
congested. With bi-directional unicast traffic, keeping that high DSCP
means NTP would now have a much larger impact on all other traffic.
Reducing it would lead to more queued or dropped NTP packets,
unpredictably, for each client.

None of these issues are major and all have workarounds or solutions
available, either with ntpsec or by switching to a different package.
But they are cases impacted by this swap to add to the list of reasons
ntp silently being swapped for ntpsec is non-ideal while being aliased
as ntp. I'm all for ntpsec being the new default (or chrony or
timesyncd), but ntpsec is not ntp and it is a breaking change to treat
it like it is.

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