If you use the API heavily then trying to look at the Activity Log can be frustrating as it can take a long time to generate the results for the API log. Instead it would be better, and quicker to default the Activity Log to be a blank entry so that the admin can choose which area to view API, Emails, Logins etc.
I also have this suggestion listed based on my experience, but we are setting up ASM. I noticed you logged this for vFire, so I'll create a new entry for ASM.