Sorting blog posts by title, recently edited, or author is lovely, but when you batch fix a set of articles (by tag for example), finding recently created articles is a nightmare. I don’t know why this “feature” was removed, but it was helpful and has slowed down blogging upkeep.
It’s hard to actually imagine why this feature was removed. Was it done by mistake? Did someone actually make a conscious decision that this was a bad feature and remove it? The mind boggles.