When out-of-the-box Activate/Deactivate ribbon buttons are used to either activate or deactivate (both out-of-the-box and custom entities), these 2 events are registering as a simple Update in audit history. When doing essentially the same thing via a workflow using Change Record Status step, the audit history shows the right event (Activate/Deactivate). I was told that this was by-design but it feels like this is a bug.
If we need to run a report of entity records deactivated/activated in a certain period of time, we cannot do it as CRM is registering these as simple Update events and it's impossible to know what exactly was updated since we don't even have access to changeddata attribute of the Audit entity. If it was properly working, we can just query Audit table for Action = 4 (activate) or 5 (deactivate). Can this bug be fixed please?

Regards,
-Tony Suslovich.