Flagcounter is a "nice" thing to have to people that care about it but it alone isn't near enough initiative to revert to the way things were.
What SHOULD be initiative to at least provide people the option to opt out is that the features added annoy a LOT of people, they break more than just redundant flag counters, and are offline a lot. Lazyloading, for example, gets a lot of complaints and relied on community support to fix what a notable amount of users considered unbearably annoying fade-in. The community should not be the one to fix what the service adds, especially when a vocal albeit lesser part of the community complains about it, undoubtedly with another minority that also is disappointed with changes however is most likely either lacking in communicative skills or motivation to complain.