I noticed this when I reinstalled macOS. At some point they stopped including a ~/Sites folder but if you create one now it will give you the special Sites fold

I noticed this when I reinstalled macOS. At some point they stopped including a ~/Sites folder but if you create one now it will give you the special Sites folder icon in the main Finder window. Oddly though they did not update the small version of the icon so it shows up in the sidebar as a regular folder.