Why has the medical community shifted away from body fat % to BMI?

In the early 2000s I remember multiple times stepping onto scales barefoot (at the doctor's office) to measure my body fat %. Nowadays, they just do BMI which doesn't account for lean muscle mass at all. It seems like a downgrade to me. Why did this happen?

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