WMIC Deprecation: Why remove it entirely instead of providing a backward-compatible stub?

I am writing to express my frustration regarding the recent removal of the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (`wmic`) tool from recent Windows 11 builds.

Like many IT professionals, I maintain dozens of legacy batch scripts that rely on `wmic` for basic system queries (such as pulling the local date and time). Automatically removing this tool breaks decades of established scripts, causing unnecessary downtime and forcing us to rewrite code that has worked flawlessly for years.

While I understand the push to modernize and transition administrators toward PowerShell and CIM cmdlets, removing the executable entirely feels like a heavy-handed approach.

**A Proposed Solution:**

Instead of a hard break, why couldn't Microsoft replace the legacy `wmic.exe` with a lightweight stub or alias? This stub could accept the traditional `wmic` command-line arguments, translate them, and delegate the work to the modern PowerShell/CIM equivalents under the hood.

Backward compatibility has always been one of Windows' greatest strengths. Please consider adding a compatibility layer for fundamental system tools before deprecating them completely, rather than breaking the IT infrastructure that relies on them.