[nobleach]

It seems like "EVERYTHING" Apple has done in this arena just ensures I'll have to use a search function to find what I want. Same is true for Windows 10+. "I just want to format a USB Thumbdrive!!! why do I have to search for some sort of Disks section in the Control Panel??"

[graypegg]

I mean, why not? I think a lot of people under-20 will instinctively think of “erase this whole disk and put a new file system on it” as a very “settings” sort of thing, not something to be done in a separate application like Disk Manager. (Which is technically a hold over from when OSes did not ship with extensive disk management tools, so normally you would have some flavour of Norton Utilities installed after-market.)

If you’ve grown up with phones and tablets, anything that’s a change to the device, even if it’s an operation and not a setting, is in “settings”.

I get it, doesn’t mean I agree with it to be fair! I miss old system preferences as much as you.

[golergka]

Why can't this function be found in several places at once?

[graypegg]

Windows has multiple settings and control panel lists to launch the exact same control panel applications. Or even duplicate UI to control the same setting.

I think generally that’s seen as confusing, and probably not something worth striving for IMO.

[samtheprogram]

Not that there aren't more settings/apps/etc nowadays, but your example doesn't apply well for macOS because Disk Utility has been in the same location since the first version over 20 years ago, in /Applications/Utilities/.

[nobleach]

That particular example is Windows 10, that's correct.

My comment was mostly about how to find things in the new "settings" experience.

[ruined]

embrace search. command+space is dmenu and command+f is dmenu for a specific context