You could setup a new, empty VM and use it as a download only machine for packages, although it makes the process a bit more complicated.

I found this, maybe it is a suitable solution? https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/408348

Since I had to deal with some representatives of SUSE corp, I can say that the whole experience was just plain horrible. Don‘t like that company at all and thus am not surprised that the name change topic is even discussed at all.

Have a smartphone ready and record a video clip when/if it happens again.