If you mean about the part when you viewed a particular transaction in which there was a status according to it's priority (high, medium and low) then you have a point (was useful) but from the wallet itself, it's still there. You should switch from "Regular Send" to "Advanced Send" so you would be able to adjust and see the status as below (before you make the payments and perhaps this is the reason that they took away the priority status part since you could know everything before processing the payment):
Within 1 block = High priority
Within 6 blocks = Medium priority
More than 6 blocks = Low priority
