Two clips with identical view counts can be worth very different amounts. One held attention to the end and prompted shares; the other was scrolled past after half a second and counted anyway.
Because platforms define a view generously, raw counts flatter content that is skipped. Watch-through rate, replays, and shares describe what actually happened.
For anyone assessing an organic program, watch-through and shares are more informative than the headline number, and harder to inflate artificially.