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using 1.16.0

Please ignore that banner; the cluster dashboard is a fork of the same dashboard from Rancher Manager, but unfortunately we can't easily update that dashboard. See also https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/3212#issuecomment-2374747939

Thanks, that at least informs me that I should probably lean towards the CLI for now. Appreciate the response!

You can use the cluster dashboard; it is just not the latest version from upstream. Personally I like to use the cli, and K9s - Manage Your Kubernetes Clusters In Style for an easy way navigate the cluster using the keyboard.