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When you watch for updates in, for ex., "What's new?" you see that the thread you liked has an update or when you browse categories you can do the same.
Agreed. I can see the OP's point, but in essence it's just duplicate functionality. It's only one extra click, really. Although that sort of brings to front an option: "Automatically watch threads containing posts you like".