Yeah. They seem to have taken the feedback ("Don't do this") from people in the beta (like me), piped it to /dev/null, then rolled it out anyway.
I guess someone had to show something for the time they'd spent on it or something. "What've you been working on for the last month?" -> "Adding an extra column to everyones dashboard, even though it takes up useful screen real estate, and many people don't want it". -> "Yeah, that's obviously a win, roll that out!"