WIFI management in GNOME

Why has WiFi network management regressed so badly in GNOME? Specifically, it doesn't carry it anymore. Instead you're directed to YaST. That's two passwords to connect, root and the network. Management in YaST is very poor anyway, in that it doesn't remember connections. It's getting very annoying to me and to my hosts as I have to manually connect every time I return to the place I'm boarding this month. I don't want to use KDE just for this, but every other device has a simple process for connecting and only one time. Jon Cosby