Why no population counter?

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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Why is there not a population counter in halo 5? That was one of my favorite things in Xbox Live, seeing how many people played. I remember 100,000+ in Reach!
Dies anyone else like the population counters?

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Already another (recent) topic on this.