This would be nice. I don't track users on my personal blog. I don't give a flying duck about what people do there. However I make money from running a website

This would be nice. I don't track users on my personal blog. I don't give a flying duck about what people do there. However I make money from running a website which is really useful to a lot of people. I absolutely need to know what works and what doesn't. I can't write and edit in the dark, possibly missing by a mile what my readers really need. It would be like flying a plane without instruments. For instance, I see that a lot of people use the search to find a single guide, which should definitely be linked on the home page. Without basic tracking, I wouldn't even know which pages are important to my users. There are many gaping holes in your website that you could be completely blind to without a basic sense of what your users do on your website. I also caught many illegal copies of my website through referrer tracking. Three of them were phishing websites, and I got them shut down. So there are many legitimate reasons to have basic traffic counters, and you can have those while respecting your users' privacy and following the spirit and the letter of GDPR.