I really like your posts. They are really thoughtful, challenging, but without falling back on another set of truisms or slogans.
When I was doing AA, counting days bothered me from the beginning. I intuitively recoiled. Kind of like, you know, the studio that practices 'real' Karate, doesn't go by belts.
Maybe there is a deeper and sacred level to the thing being practiced where calling attention to it is one layer of the experience, but not the only layer.