Ways to get ICMP to work

First of all, I apologize if this is not the right place to ask questions, as I'm not sure where is the best place to do so.

After some digging, on MacOS, it seems the only way to get ICMP to work with QEMU is to use a tap with a bridged network. This requires root access plus a no longer supported tuntap network extension.
So I'm wondering if lima would be able to support a networking mode that would overcome this limitation?
I've tried vde vmnet with both the normal and bridge mode, neither seems to make a difference.

The reason I'm asking is, tools like gradle would fail requests with network unreachable when ICMP is blocked, and this is a show stopper for our usage.

Any input to workaround this issue is appreiciated.