Since it has been brought up. I am also not sure what benefit there is in knowing how many steps you have taken, especially over ground that is irregular in terms of surface and gradient. These days the distance covered, time taken and ascent/descent can all be measured with a comparable degree of accuracy.
I don't pay much attention to step counts nowadays, but I have found them useful in the past.
I ought to stress though, that counting steps requires no effort on my part whatsoever. My watch counts and displays my steps whether or not it's recording an activity and Garmin displays the relevant data on my 'dashboard' anyway. So it's about knowing, not doing!
When I started using a watch to record my activities almost 8 years ago, my steps were recorded by default. During the setup, when Garmin asked for a daily steps target, I entered 10,000. From then on, I was told if I'd reached my target and, if so, for how many consecutive days - what Garmin calls a 'Goal Streak'.
So there I was always competing with my watch, because I didn't like having to start over again.
Lockdown increased my daily step count considerably, because I didn't have much else to do.
For me, 10,000 steps equates to around 6 miles, which was pretty easy to do each day, especially since I'd clock up about 2,000 of those steps just doing normal stuff.
I began my longest ever Goal Streak on 24th February 2020 and managed to do at least 10,000 steps every single day until the 1st August 2021 - 525 consecutive days. (I made the decision to stop there because I did 42 miles that day and I knew I had to stop sometime and so I decided to go out on a high.)
Since then, I've barely looked at my step counts (and they're of even less interest now that I've added cycling to my outdoor pursuits!).
But I do still glance at my monthly step totals chart because that gives me an extremely simplistic overview as to whether I'm maintaining my overall efforts. And really, that's how I've seen the daily step counts all along - for me, they've been a motivator to move even when I'm not doing an activity on that particular day, as well as being a simple summary of my overall efforts.