Oh thank God someone posted this. Exactly same experience Manly Electronics.
Contact support by chat and they were clueless and tried to convince me that this updated method was more secure. 🤨
Two days later, for whatever reason, EIS decided to block my nic from getting an IP from my router. Ended up having to uninstall and reinstall.
Ready revert to v15 assuming I can prevent auto upgrade to v16.