Comment 13 for bug 1802004

I'm currently working around this using a systemd .link file. I created /etc/systemd/network/50-lan0.link as follows:

[Match]
MACAddress=08:00:27:3d:1a:a4

[Link]
Name=lan0

Then ran update-initramfs -u

I then use netplan to configure the lan0 interface without doing any renaming.