I think there is some nuance to this: to me, it makes a difference whether you are counting page views in a coarse-grained, anonymous fashion, or whether you are going through all the hoops to find out as much as technically possible about all visitors.

I have some basic analytics on my blog as well. I’m just curious “what’s going on” on my website, in the same way as e.g. a shop owner in real life is aware of what’s going in their store. Publishing things on the internet can feel quite anonymous for the most part anyways, so at least I find it nice to have some rough insight into basic traffic patterns.