I think 343 should do away with the population counters from reach and h3.
All they do is cause topics and threads that focus on the numbers and cause people to focus only on the numbers, when in fact its very easy to find a match.
On halo 2 (Back in the day) There were no poulation counters, and so no complaint threads and comparisons to other games.
343 save your forums the headache that will be 100s of threads complaining about population by just leaving them out, they add nothing to the game.