Does anybody else feel weary about "building in public" being a necessity nowadays?

Sharing progress is something I love. However, I am not a fan of the trend to share metrics on a daily basis and risk being considered shady if I didn’t. I tried it for six weeks. Every day I would write posts about my revenue, follower numbers, and all the usual suspects. In the meantime, my actual building of the product was slowing down since I spent one hour a day writing about things that were not yet done.

Nothing terrible happened when I stopped. No loss in credibility and no customers who would blame me for being quiet.

Maybe it works better for certain products or personalities. I wonder if the people who stayed with the “build in public” concept all this time actually have some customers or revenue coming from it.