As i've checked out steempeak analytics I've seen a few posts get tens of thousands of views and yet get very little rewards.

Indeed, this is what would be nice with public analytics to have as well, which I think would also be nice if you guys could implement instead of the way Twitter only shows it for personal use and same thing with Reddit subreddit traffic only shows it to moderators. Keep it all public and transparent for anyone to see which would align with the Steem spirit in general, but yeah.

I think the most important first steps would be a viewcounter, if you guys also build the backbone to differentiate between accounts and bring weekly/monthly viewcounter/"impression" charts one can check up specifically somewhere then it would also pave the way for something like adding Brave to steempeak for each content creator (I don't know how this last part would work exactly but having the option open would be a + and if you guys want to share some BAT revenue with the content creators that have generated most of the traffic would be appreciated both ways and at the same time lead to even more traffic when they're aware of what sharing their steempeak links outside of the steem ecosystem can entail, not to mention specific accounts/stake that give extra curation incentive before posts pay out depending on the views they generated.

So yeah, any sort of viewcounter would be very much appreciated at first, doesn't even matter much to begin with if it's easily gamed (which I think was the reason Steemit removed theirs last time to "fix it" and it remained gone.