This comes from both personal feelings on first load and from @helen's investigation via Tweets:

I have no idea what I'm supposed to do now. Do I need to configure something? Is it already active? Thankfully I'm the only writer here.

Could we redirect on first activation to a NUX experience of some form? Even just a page saying what can be done now. As we want more people to use, guiding them would be a good thing. I am not sure just moving the menu to a more discoverable place solves this fully.