What is the point of the Mail Activity pane (vs. Window Activity)?

I was happy to see this new little pane in the lower left corner, but I have yet to actually see it display anything. The old, separate Activity Window still shows everything in great detail, but I'd prefer the more compact version... if that's what it's for.

Yes it looks like like yet another half hearted band-aid solution. The difference appears to be that the small activity window built into the interface only shows mail being retrieved or sent. Whereas the normal activity window, which you need to manually display with a key command, shows status of all the activity - ie contacting the server etc.
I wonder if any clever folks out there know of a way to tweak the code in mail so that the small activity window can display the full status information?
Those who used Mail previous to Tiger will recall that the Mail program used to always display the status when you checking/sending mail. Why on earth did Apple remove it?? Now you sit and wait and wonder without any user feedback beyond an obscure spinning wheel.

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