OK, after installing Nethserver under some serious duress, I am finally figuring out that its even better than I thought. It took me a while to find the docs though.
Is there a TLDR version of the e-smith docs, especially for those of us who have to use it in severe anger 
WRT to the web UI, if you’re going to keep it simple (simple is good, BTW), please put documentation in the Help menu as to how to deal with more complex setups.