Thank you for this clear explanation and fine suggestion!

My one suggested change (and I may have missed it if you already included it in your proposal): make it possible for the journal owner to choose not to have a link to that statistics dashboard (perhaps this is something that people could do for themselves with custom styles for their journals). My reasoning is similar to the reasoning for how Inbox notification settings make it possible to avoid getting notified when someone removes you from their circle; sometimes a journal owner wants to make it harder for themselves to notice the moments when they are not very popular.