There really seems to be 2 factions inside Apple: One faction that wants to keep dumbing down MacOS to make it resemble iOS. 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. 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.

You are already frustrated and don't want to spend additional time hunting around for these applications. You already have network preferences openĢ.

If you need to use these tools, chances are that:ġ. The best solution was to add 'Open Network Utility' and 'Wireless Diagnostics' buttons in the network preferences. Since it was no longer in the Utilities folder, people might have assumed it was no longer available.

Then it was eventually buried somewhere in system folders that were not easy to manually browse to. In older versions of MacOS, Network Utility was located in the Utilities folder. Probably because most people didn't even know it existed.

Mac os x utilities folder