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....