As I am not yet allowed to make comments, I want to react to David Browne's question: Why do you need them?
The answer to that is simple, a piece of software that I need to install depends on those tools (for the time being) and I therefore require them to be available.
If I could do without them, I would, but in this case I think there is not other option than to revert back to SQL Server 2019, as these tools are still included in that installation medium.
I found on another forum that it was an option to install them via the SQL server 2019 Installation Medium, but I am not sure that is a good idea. [how to install Components (client tools connectivity and Client tools backwords Compatibility) in sql server 2022][1]
Any advice/comments to that?
[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1499897/how-to-install-components-(client-tools-connectivi