Why Did Steemit Remove Number of Views Feature on Posts?

Headline

Alright, I have just noticed this. Steemit has removed the “number of views” feature on a post. I have no clue why did they do that..

Synopsis

Some time ago, i made a contribution on Hive account@utopian-io that number of views can seriously make or break growth / popularity of an article.

Why??

Because if someone has got 500 views on a post with only 20 upvotes, that generally means public did not like the post and after reading it, they chose to ignore it.

However there was a catch, a single user can refresh a link to a post multiple times to increase the number of views.

So my contribution aimed at using a technique that would allow one view per user no matter how many refreshes are done by that particular user.

I know few people have also contributed who suggested that names of viewers must also be visible and some even said to remove the feature altogether due to its benign nature.

Steemit has finally gone in a direction. I am not sure how i feel about this to have this feature entirely removed.

Conclusion

I am still not sure whether it is a glitch or steemit has really removed the feature altogether .. would love to get some insight from a credible witness or an elite user like Hive account@acidyo Hive account@lukestokes Hive account@themarkymark or Hive account@transisto.

The house is open for discussion in the comments section..

Update

Here is the link to my utopian contribution related to number of views. Link. The same has been added in the post as well..