The real questions is why was this decisions made in the first place? If a sone dedicated people can use the trend data to determine real plugin numbers that is hardly a big deal, in fact there is a good argument that everyone should have this data anyway

But if it is a problem the answer is to hide the number by default but leave it available for the author and contributors. Obviously this would take a while to build but the status quo is not a major problem so it isn’t urgent