Been using thunderbolt networking for years on macOS, and it is definitely the way to go for things like migration assistant. Prior to thunderbolt you could use

Been using thunderbolt networking for years on macOS, and it is definitely the way to go for things like migration assistant. Prior to thunderbolt you could use ethernet or firewire, the latter also supporting target disk mode. I like universal access etc., but I still wish Apple would bring back target disk mode, target display mode (makes iMacs a lot more useful!), and back to my mac.