One of the most important things that a blogging tool can do is to give you the option of uploading images and including them in posts. Prior to WP 2.5, the ability to upload and include images in posts was one click.
Right below the post window were your images.
WP2.5 did away with that. Zeldman’s idea of usability with the new dashboard, is so far down the technorati tagging rathole as to be an unusable mess except for those folks who think that writing is the only communication medium.
I suspect that somebody got scared by photos as a child.