I'm wondering why AF does not allow some mod actions like "Move" and "Lock" to be done while reading a thread? (ie. inside a TopicView)

It seems obvious that one would not know if they should move or lock a topic until they read it. Upon reading it, they should be able to complete that action instead of having to go back to the topics list and find the topic and then handle it several clicks later.

The admin guide references these tokens and last I looked, it incorrectly stated the tokens were available inside a TopicView.

Were there a technical reason that these options were removed from TopicView?

The options used to be there way back in 3.x. I miss this feature.

I asked for this long time ago but there weren't many voters at that time. Even today, it's just you and me.

Anyway, I think you can modify it.

Have you see the admin guide?