I agree! Anchored MaxDiff is a great option to get at something beyond purely relative importance in MaxDiff.

OTOH, the primary implementation of Anchored MaxDiff relies on hierarchical Bayes estimation, and that is beyond the scope of something like the "easy" counts-based approach taken here. I'll think about it!

(This post is not a recommendation to do counts, but rather was intended to be a demonstration someone might use for learning, before jumping into a real MaxDiff implementation.)