User blog comment:Meighan/New Tools to Start & Grow Your Wiki/@comment-67.173.84.212-20110805044149/@comment-4713673-20110805172355

There is no insidious plan to get you to use Activity Feed (though the word insidious is fun to say!) Activity Feed and Recent Changes are for two different audiences, and if you're one who would rather use Recent Changes, you definitely should. The removal of that link from the Advanced Tab was made because Recent Changes is now highlighted (purposefully) in the General Tab so more admins will see it and access it. With the Admin Dashboard there are two tabs that tools live in, and it doesn't make sense to have one tool listed twice in both places.