Valve employee u/jeffhill even said himself that “Account Level is a poor metric of how old is the account”, and that’s why they added Total Games Counter to profiles. Why would they remove it?
Remember when they said “Smurfs are not welcome in Dota 2?” and after an initial banwave nothing happened?
I wish Valve would stay consistent on their promises and stop doing “one-time things” that don’t last more than a month.
Experimental or not - it really was a nice feature, and considering that slamming people with a smurf report is a pretty big claim; not having it makes it almost impossible to be certain if the steam account is also entirely private.