firewalld direct rules with ACCEPT not working on RHEL 8, 9

Issue

• Direct rules with ACCEPT verdict not working with nftables backend

• Even though httpd.service and firewalld.service are running, allowing port 80 through direct rules does not provide access to the webserver:

  systemctl start httpd.service
  systemctl start firewalld.service 
  firewall-cmd --direct --add-rule ipv4 filter INPUT 1 -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
  

• Client can't accesss, gets No route to host error.

• Changing from FirewallBackend=nftables to FirewallBackend=iptables the direct rule works.
• Connectivity not working between servers when firewall getting started in RHEL8
• firewalld direct.xml from RHEL 7 no longer works on RHEL 8
• How do direct rules work with firewalld when firewalld uses nftables?