I’d prefer to wait and see if others find the new interface disagreeable for this purpose, as it’s only an extra click or two. In the meantime you can bookmark /review?status=reviewed in your browser to jump to the latest reviewed things.
I just reviewed the code pre-review queue and “view pending” was a link to the queued posts URL so I’m not sure how it could have worked.
It looks like we had a bug in our “post recover” code, where if the post was edited but not its body, it would throw an error. This should fix it:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/abf4ca9774d080d561aa0110eb13b19d77438cd7