Well, Serato WOULD be better than RB at workflow and organisation (and a zillion other things) as it’s DJ software, something RB clearly is not (yet).
And apparently you are a very visual person in that you actually use something like the bar counter. I don’t ever look at that info and use RB only sparingly, so had to check to see if I could recreate the problem. Assuming you are on the latest version of RB (3.3.0).
Well, mine works as advertised. You could try playing around with some of the settings for font and such to see if that changes anything. It does, as you see, seem to be related to a screen/video issue. Is the resolution on your laptop/PC set correctly?