Why did the sidebar item count dissapear with V8?

+1 on this. What AB considered as 'too cluttered' was a professional user interface in v7. Everyone even non-tech expert users understood it. v8 is just a sad joke now.

An anecdote that properly shows the competence of v8.
Back in the day our company hired a graphic designer to create designs for our web projects. Unknown to developers that person was a print graphic designer. The designs created were stylish but it was just unnecessarily complicated to implement that design. Not even to say that person didn understand mobile vs desktop etc..
This is how v8 feels. Designed by someone without knowledge for user interfaces and usability. Its shiny and cool but not usable.