Recently changed instead of recently created

The recently created list of articles is not as useful to me as is a recently updated or changed articles. Having a recently changed list would end up showing the exact same list as recently created if a site does not edit previous posts, so seems like it would be more useful for all.

Sure, one could use views module to do this (and in fact, this item is mentioned in the views doc - so it must be a popular request!) - but article is so much nicer and light-weight.

It was easy to make this change locally - just mass replace n.created to n.changed in article.module

But that means now updating this module becomes difficult locally, so would be nice if this were a configurable option in the next version of the article module.