User blog comment:Kirkburn/Finding the latest activity on your wiki just got simpler!/@comment-13301-20091105200725

I completely agree with Najevi's comment of allowing users to add or remove it from their sidebar, just as almost every other widget. Now that widget hasn't key items like links to recentchanges (the link of recentchanges could be removed from sidebar and this be the only link to it, but My Home always have a link in the top links), userpage, talkpage, manage widgets and avatar there's no reason to force it to be present for everyone and everywhere.