“Instead of having to instruct a user about where to go to click on the lost password link and follow the steps, this new feature lets administrators push a button in the admin to send the link.”

This suggests a number of admins were having a failure of imagination: it’s always been possible for the admin to visit the login page and type in the user’s login, to send them the lost password email. So, this new feature really only means clicking a link in the admin instead of the front-end. Nice to have, but as I say, it was always possible.