I don't know why I didn't see this earlier, but I had always thought that the Network page was just a list of statistics and servers to select.
It's most probably because like me you are an old user of Electrum who remembers how it used to be 
Over the years with each release, the Electrum team keep changing and improving everything including the Network related stuff. Specially when people request new features or find bugs. Some of these changes are somewhat hidden so they are easy to overlook.
Here is how simple the Network window used to look in version 2 with Network also having an option for non-encrypted communication over TCP (no SSL)
