diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2003.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2003.xml
index 33eba8002bab..d925f30ff22a 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2003.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2003.xml
@@ -99,6 +99,22 @@
      reconfiguring <literal>hostsdir</literal>.
     </para>
    </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+      The <literal>99-main.network</literal> file was removed. Maching all
+      network interfaces caused many breakages, see
+      <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/18962">#18962</link>
+        and <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/71106">#71106</link>.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      We already don't support the global <link linkend="opt-networking.useDHCP">networking.useDHCP</link>,
+      <link linkend="opt-networking.defaultGateway">networking.defaultGateway</link> and
+      <link linkend="opt-networking.defaultGateway6">networking.defaultGateway6</link> options
+      if <link linkend="opt-networking.useNetworkd">networking.useNetworkd</link> is enabled,
+      but direct users to configure the per-device
+      <link linkend="opt-networking.interfaces">networking.interfaces.&lt;name&gt;.…</link> options.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
  </section>
 
diff --git a/nixos/modules/tasks/network-interfaces-systemd.nix b/nixos/modules/tasks/network-interfaces-systemd.nix
index 863072e33dc3..90ee09c34dde 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/tasks/network-interfaces-systemd.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/tasks/network-interfaces-systemd.nix
@@ -76,15 +76,6 @@ in
           };
       in mkMerge [ {
         enable = true;
-        networks."99-main" = (genericNetwork mkDefault) // {
-          # We keep the "broken" behaviour of applying this to all interfaces.
-          # In general we want to get rid of this workaround but there hasn't
-          # been any work on that.
-          # See the following issues for details:
-          # - https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/18962
-          # - https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/61629
-          matchConfig = mkDefault { Name = "*"; };
-        };
       }
       (mkMerge (forEach interfaces (i: {
         netdevs = mkIf i.virtual ({