can't enable enp3s0 (ethernet interface) and ethernet wired simply does not work

I've started experiencing a weird issue. I'm normally connected via RJ45 but as I write this I was forced to switch to Wifi instead.

So here's the thing, I've noticed that lately when coming back from suspend, I basically had to reboot in order to get Internet connectivity again.

After the second time, I decided to dig why this was happening. So here's what I tried so far:

sudo lshw -C network

Output:

  *-network                 
       description: Wireless interface
       product: Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak]
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: wlp2s0
       version: 10
       serial: 1c:4d:70:8b:e1:97
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=5.11.0-27-generic firmware=29.1654887522.0 3168-29.ucode ip=192.168.1.144 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
       resources: irq:126 memory:df200000-df201fff
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet
       vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: enp3s0
       version: 10
       serial: 4c:cc:6a:e2:a9:77
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=alx latency=0 multicast=yes
       resources: irq:19 memory:df100000-df13ffff ioport:d000(size=128)

As you can see the enp3s0 device is disabled...so if I try to bring it up:

sudo ip link set enp3s0 up

I get this:

RTNETLINK answers: No such device

Searching for info on this error doesn't show up a lot of help.

Then, I tried to restart netplan via NetWorkManager, here are the contents of my file:

sudo cat /etc/netplan/01-network-manager-all.yaml           
# Let NetworkManager manage all devices on this system
network:
  version: 2
  renderer: NetworkManager
  ethernets:
    enp3s0:
      dhcp4: true

Then applied and restarted NetworkManager service

sudo netplan apply
sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager.service

But still, no luck. Checking on the UI I noticed the following:

Which is weird...not sure why there are that many listed??

If I click on any of the 2, I get this

Checking the settings I see this:

I'm not sure what's really happening here...tried checking dmesg but I don't see specific errors related with this interface

dmesg | grep -e etwork -e enp                    
[ 2695.416481] alx 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: wol: ctrl=3, speed=A
[12199.099371] alx 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: wol: ctrl=3, speed=A
[15886.753884] alx 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: wol: ctrl=3, speed=A
[26846.775196] alx 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: wol: ctrl=3, speed=A
[26877.043272] alx 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: wol: ctrl=3, speed=A
[36094.086555] alx 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: wol: ctrl=3, speed=A
[36124.365270] alx 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: wol: ctrl=3, speed=A
[57796.358176] alx 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: wol: ctrl=3, speed=A
[68289.487047] alx 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: wol: ctrl=3, speed=A
[77002.517657] alx 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: wol: ctrl=3, speed=A

When rebooting, this is what I see:

sudo lshw -C network                             
[sudo] password for internetmosquito: 
  *-network DISABLED        
       description: Wireless interface
       product: Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak]
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: wlp2s0
       version: 10
       serial: 1c:4d:70:8b:e1:97
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=5.11.0-27-generic firmware=29.1654887522.0 3168-29.ucode latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
       resources: irq:126 memory:df200000-df201fff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet
       vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: enp3s0
       version: 10
       serial: 4c:cc:6a:e2:a9:77
       size: 1Gbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=alx driverversion=5.11.0-27-generic duplex=full ip=192.168.1.141 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1Gbit/s
       resources: irq:19 memory:df100000-df13ffff ioport:d000(size=128)

sudo ip link show enp3s0       
2: enp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 4c:cc:6a:e2:a9:77 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

And then in the UI again:

Any idea what might be going on here? Having to restart to solve the issue is just a nightmare...what is happening when going to suspend and waking up that causes this?