man not having visible follower/following counts was the smartest thing a social media site ever did
yeah it was fundamentally Weird to go to someone's profile and not know if they followed you, but it was a nice equaliser that there wasn't really an immediate, visible sense that someone was a supposed Big Deal or not.
yeah, it removed the "this person follows 10 times more people than they have followers, they must be Unimportant" stigma that is on literally every other social media - and it is there no matter what people say