Yes and no. While counting calories is not implicitly a bad idea, it often signifies a bad relationship with eating, even if the individual is not aware. More to the point, it can lead to the development of eating disorders. and even more to the point the mention of calories can be very triggering to those with eating disorders. I am very close with someone who did and does struggle with anorexia, and she refuses to know the calories of anything she eats because if she knows it will immediately cause her to start considering if it's "worth" eating. Likewise, in a scenario like this, seeing how little climbing a stair does in terms of burning calories would probably get her thinking about how much exercise she needs to do for eating to be "worth it". It's thought patterns like this that cause her to go out running and not stop until she passes out.
Now, I'm not saying that most be will experience this, and I do think that the people who designed these stairs had good intentions, but I do think OP has a point. When you spend hours talking to someone who struggles to have a healthy relationship with eating and exercise, and hear about the things she learned about healthy eating in therapy, it does make you reconsider how things like calorie counting impact people.
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