There’s a lot more real estate on BS than is available on the screen. Across the board, even the Panda Touch, wifi signal is preferred on the main screen.
Reading across the boards you’ll find that signal changes more than you’d think. The printers location doesn’t change but the condition of the router does. As well one of the first indications the SD card is dying or dead is wifi connectivity. All the wifi info is on that card.
Not trying to fight on this, but I’d rather have to click into a different menu/screen to change speed, than to look at signal.
Depending on when, or how often, you could set up a profile within Studio for the speed you want.