It'd be nice to have it back. I've just recently started using SteemPlus and thought it was this app - that I love for other reasons - that had resulted in the view counter disappearing. So, I just grinned and bore it. As suggested, it probably is because of bots manipulating the count / having to justify enormous payouts for posts with few views.

I manually manipulated a count once. I was being trolled and I wanted the troll to think a post had been viewed a lot more than it actually had been (it was aimed at the troll). I must have hit F5 so many times. Sad, I know, but....