Thread:Mark Otaris/@comment-4360159-20160502021202/@comment-4360159-20160503054911

Oh, yes. I am familiar with the glory of AllPages.

It's just that, I find the existence of such a category leads to a better understanding of the organization of a wiki (or the gaps in organization). –At the very least, it makes it a heck of a lot easier to understand.

Although Browse may not have been the best solution, it is, at this time, the only solution to getting CategoryTree to work at its full potential (as you have noted as its limitation). In addition, the lack of an encompassing category leads to much more top-level categories and adds to the clutter in Special:UncategorizedCategories; serving to obscure what categories present aren't supposed to be top-level.

With Special:CategoryTree and Special:UncategorizedCategories handicapped by a lack of this category, categories such as Category:Bluesteel items (lacking parent Category:Hats) and Category:Watercooler (unused category that is perhaps 4 years obsolete, listed under Category:Forums) are easily overlooked (until now when I did a bit of a combing).

I won't actively advocate for its revival (beyond this post), but I still strongly believe there is a place for such a category.