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Why is it that in the Yosemite version you can partition a drive without erasing it first while on newer releases, you have to first erase the drive then partition afterwards?

It seems to me that the only good thing about Disk Utility post-Yosemite is you can immediately set a partition scheme, MBR, GPT, while the Yosemite release, even though a 3rd party Windows partition tool identified the drive as using GPT, Windows 10 setup still sees the drive as MBR

I know I can just use Boot Camp Assistant to perform the tasks for dual booting macOS and Windows, however, since I already have the required drivers by using Brigadier, I don't see the need to run the tool for the same purpose...

Even if I will just be dual booting 2 different macOS versions, I still don't understand the need to erase the drive before partitioning it...

Side note, Apple should have kept the option to divide/partition the drive equally when using the Boot Camp Assistant...
 
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