Detaching but staying connected...

Working on blokz.io, and I'm thinking to myself about how there is such a huge focus on visitors and hits and who's viewing my posts.. which ties back to social media addiction, the dopamine hits you get from likes and such.. which Steem sure don't help with!! And I asked myself, what's the goal here? Who am I doing this for? If I'm building something for myself, why would I care about the analytics... ?
When we build services or resources, what is the goal?
And yes, I am playing devil's advocate here.