It may happen that we don’t find a plugin useful, or a theme very pleasant, in its first iterations. However after a few updates it may become interesting.
However there is no easy way to know which plugins/themes have been updated recently if one has not installed them yet.
Proposed solution
In the ‘Appearance/Themes/Manage’ and ‘Community Plugins/Browse’ settings, add “Last updated time” to existing sort orders.
Current workaround (optional)
Keep an eye on Discord server, but there’s a lot of activity there and it’s easy to miss important things.
I second this. In order to see which plugins were recently updated, I have to quickly memorize the list presented quickly while updating. It’d also be nice to see which plugins might be deprecated if they haven’t been updated in a long time.