Yes, according to this post that seems to be the case. Which does not make much sense, at least not for me.
I do not have an idea either, but our About page is viewed from time to time, by users and also by the admins. We all are used to stats like this from our old forum system (phpBB).
Btw, that was also the reason why I requested a record information for the Who’s online plugin. (I do not find my post anymore, strange, so I will post and request it again.)
Yes, I agree.
And, without being a programmer, I think that adjusting the About page with some more and more accurate/useful information, which is already available as database queries in the Data Explorer plugin should not be a lot of time and work.