Evidently, the purpose and utility of badge counts is lost on you. Just as with Messages, Email, and third-party apps, badge notifications for Calendar serve a significant purpose and, yes, it is beneficial to know that you have 6 things on your calendar in a given day. While it is true that you still must open the Calendar app to actually view those events, it is the actual opening and viewing that becomes an unnecessary step if you know ahead of time (via badge number) that there is nothing to see inside. In any given month, there could be a variety of events scattered throughout the month. Actively going into the Calendar app each and every day to see if there is anything scheduled for that day is enormously inefficient whilst a simple badge glance lets you know if such a step is even necessary. I purchased a third-party app that does include a badge counter for events and it is phenomenally more efficient than having to open the Calendar app each and every day to see if I have an event scheduled for that day. If you can appreciate the utility of badge counts for Messages, Email, social media apps, and the like, then you should be keenly familiar with the analogous benefit for Calendar events. By your logic, how do we benefit from knowing we have 5 emails? Or ten Messages? In each instance, we still must open the corresponding applications to view the content, no? Yet...there IS a benefit in knowing at a glance that there are 5 email messages waiting to be read, or ten text messages waiting for reply. By your reasoning, we should simply go into the messages app and check, since we eventually must do that anyway. It's infinitely absurd. As an aside, that's why "pull" email went the way of the dinosaur and was replaced by push notification; the passive alert system is exponentially more efficient than the active one.
