In the old days when I used to repair stuff for a living, if I had to test for a faulty junction in a diode or transistor, I would get out an analogue meter to do that task even if I was using a digital meter for the rest of the faultfinding process.
Nowadays to only faultfinding I do is in my own workshop where I use a digital meter.
That meter has a diode test position which I find works quite well for finding faulty junctions.
I do still have a couple of analogue meters, a rather battered AVO model 7 which was given to me many years ago, and a small Japanese meter dating from about 1970 when it would have cost about £1.50. Both of these meters are out in the garage somewhere, I use them occasionally when working out there on one of my cars or some other stuff.
Many years ago I worked as a computer maintenance guy at an oil terminal, the telemetry outstations around the terminal used a multiplex technique to read digital inputs from limit switches and such like, the little £1.50 meter was very good at displaying the pulses from the multiplexer so I could tell whether the switch was open or closed.
The instrument guys would blame the computer because a valve indication was not correct.
Two probelms, they did not understand how the inputs to the telemetry worked, and their nice expensive Fluke DVMs did not stand a chance of seeing the half second pulse from the mux, and were gobsmacked that my toy meter could.
(Sorry guys, there is nothing wrong with the computer, get out in the rain and snow and fix the limit switches on the valve!)
Analogue meters are good for adjusting things, such as when tuning for a maximum or minimum, but over the years I have developed an eye for using a digital meter to do the same thing, not easy but it can be done.
JimB