User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: April 19, 2017/@comment-7114405-20170421144829

So tell me, what purpose does removing the icons in the Recent wiki activity module that identifies whether an article was an edit to a pre-existing article or a newly created article actually serve? Because it's highly inconvenient that I have to go back to the Specaial:Wikiactivity page to double check whether an article has been newly created or not, because nobody is going to be able to keep track from memory exactly what articles a wiki does or doesn't have, and the thing I used those icons for the most was to see if a new page was created so I could check whether said new page was acceptable for an article or something that needed to be hastily purged from the wiki.

I legitimately don't see how you can justify this as 'modernisation' because I don't see any benefits to removing this convenient feature, so I'm only going to assume that you removed this for the sake of being anti-contributor.