Today, when you select the Applications Button, "All" Applications are selected.
You now see a collection off all Applications you have installed in alphabetic order. I think this is something like search results with a wildcard search. The user might be confused from all this partially unknown Icons. 

It would be nice if we can use a View with the "Recent Applications" as default Applications view.

If the user starts using the search, the "All" view is the right view.