The amount will always be available, and an alternate UI platform or modification/script/browser-addin may decide to display it for people who want to see it, but as a design choice, showing it by default is one thing that keeps me from using steemit as a "serious" communication platform.

If I direct people from my personal or business life to a post on steemit, the "dollar" figure on the post and each of the comments will be very distracting from the message of the post and hard to explain.