There are many advantages using 4. Look for the documentation. And it is a base for the new developments.
I was using V4 without iommu (not suported by my old chipset). I choose change my motherboard. But until there, you can use PV vms, set the networking with commands ip link, ip addr, ip route in /rw/config/rc.local e activate it with sudo chmod +x /rw/config/rc.local.