I think that the issue is if almost everyone prefers to to just look up his location online, then it's safe to say that the act of actually finding him is overall not enjoyable.

So what you are saying is that if the majority of players don't enjoy PVP for example, they should get rid of it, why wouldn't you leave both options there? To say "almost everyone" is false as I am pretty sure you don't know "almost everyone" and I am 100% sure you haven't asked "almost everyone". I personally think its a non-issue, fix it, don't fix it, makes no difference to the game and frankly at this point in D2's life, or perhaps death would be a better term, it would serve no purpose. Both options are available for whatever you want to do, look for him or look online, leave it as it is. Don't like looking for him, then go online or check the forums, like looking for him then do that. I frankly think threads like this one are just wannabe's scraping the barrel for something to post about, but as I said , its a non-issue, no reason to change it at all.