As macOS evolved toward tighter security and "signed" system volumes, the era of third-party bootable creators began to wane. Yet, for those maintaining older hardware or managing fleets of legacy Macs, DiskMaker X 7.0.1 remains a vital artifact of a time when the Mac community built the tools Apple didn't, ensuring that "it just works" applied to recovery as much as it did to daily use.
Unlike earlier legacy versions that could build drives for multiple older Mac operating systems, the developer restricted DiskMaker X 7 to work with the macOS 10.13 High Sierra installer. OS Requirements: diskmaker 7.0.1
Apple changed the underlying structure of macOS system volumes with Big Sur (the Signed System Volume). Creating a bootable drive for modern macOS is now much more complex, and DiskMaker X’s lightweight script-based architecture can no longer keep up. As macOS evolved toward tighter security and "signed"