For eye candy your Proof of Work project's fun because it's a reminder of early years. If ppl mined bitcoin at home they'll like your aesthetic honesty. How many ppl using crypto today knew about bitcoin in 2010 ?
Well, it's nostalgic right? It's supposed to take you back in time to the early days of bitcoin, outdated, clunky software UI and websites... It's also part of the "aesthetic", I think it's nice eye-candy personally at least.
Hit counter is cool, I'll see if I can do that some way without needing to use some sort of third party api or something.