Network Utility Deprecated in macOS Big Sur

Disappointing. Always found this handy to help diagnose network issues...

I still find the former Disk Utility much better than the current version too.

Perhaps I’m just an old fart now.

Really doesn’t make any sense to remove this feature!

I think this is just part of the ongoing dumbing down of macOS . . .

Probably because most people didn't even know it existed. In older versions of MacOS, Network Utility was located in the Utilities folder. Then it was eventually buried somewhere in system folders that were not easy to manually browse to. Since it was no longer in the Utilities folder, people might have assumed it was no longer available.

The best solution was to add "Open Network Utility" and "Wireless Diagnostics" buttons in the network preferences. If you need to use these tools, chances are that:
1. You already have network preferences open
2. You are already frustrated and don't want to spend additional time hunting around for these applications.

I also wish Apple would make the IPv6 link local address visible in the network preferences where it displays your IPv6 address, instead of having to dig around in terminal. Just because someone may work with technical networking stuff on the job doesn't mean they want to deal with it at home, off the job. There really seems to be 2 factions inside Apple: One faction that wants to keep dumbing down MacOS to make it resemble iOS. And another faction consisting of Linuxheads who think that everyone should do everything in the command line. Leaving the rest of Mac users caught in the middle.

Why not open source these things to GitHub (or whatever) and allow the community to sustain the features in their own apps.

Disappointing .. the GUI tool/Utility is easier to walk family/customers through over the phone to be sure.