Why is there still no way to see hours played?

A few years ago it wasn't a thing and it still isn't. What is so troubling of tracking and letting us see our total hours played? At least let us somehow see the total /played of all characters. Going through 20 and then wondering how many are deleted is... tedious.

Yes, Steam allows tracking, but I am not willing to sacrifice download speed and patch update speed just to see hours played. Why is this not a thing built-in the actual client? I don't believe they aren't tracking the hours anyway. Has anyone perhaps used GDPR to see if that's true?

Please, GGG, consider looking into total hours played statistics. This is a day one issue and people have been constantly asking about it. To anyone else - has there been any input from their side on this already?

All "too much" memes aside, I am just genuinely sad that I do not know how much time I've invested and all I can do is guess.

Like, on a logical standpoint it makes no sense.
GGG already stores hours played per-character. Where is the problem with having account-level data item for "grand total played". As the player-level played time changes, the grand total is updated - add the difference.
It's not rocket science.

maybe they don't wanna point you on your "habit"?

edit:
i got a excel sheet with my chars which i update from time to time.
if i got time.