User blog comment:Meighan/New Tools to Start & Grow Your Wiki/@comment-1429792-20110806143937/@comment-1997905-20110808010406

I think one of the things you're missing is that the new RC has disrupted everyone's workflow. At least for me, I simply can't use Oasis until it's either fixed or gone. The loss of navigation and the uglification of all special pages has simply made it unusable. Some of the pages that were changed are, honestly, asinine - Special:WhatLinksHere? No one needs to see stats and the progress bar on that. It's a page by page tool, it doesn't make any sense at all to remove navigation from it and link it back to the dashboard. If anything, it makes more sense to link back to the target page. Per Ryan, don't assume that just because a page is linked in the dashboard means it absolutely must only be used in the dashboard. Doing so makes the lives of every experienced admin harder, and prevents new admins from advancing beyond the dashboard.

Bottom line: Dashboard is a tool for training new admins. Unless it's vastly improved, making it a tool for experienced admins will only bring you and every one of us unnecessary grief.