If one needs GCC, they can install GCC. I don't get the insistence that "the tool I like should come in the default install." Not to mention, Apple would routin

If one needs GCC, they can install GCC. I don't get the insistence that "the tool I like should come in the default install." Not to mention, Apple would routinely let their installation languish at older versions of various utilities, necessitating upgrading via package manager. Being 'inconvenienced' by the removal of GCC from the default install is exactly that: an inconvenience.