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I think they removed it because the battery life of the new MBPs has been getting a lot of negative attention, deserved or not, and in general people don't seem to be capable of understanding why the estimate would change for different workloads. Maybe the best PR move was just to remove it altogether. I wish they hadn't.

It's not the same machine, but I routinely get > 10 hours on my 2016 12" Macbook with a workflow that includes moderate to heavy browsing in Opera, coding in Tmux/Vim, and various compilers and interpreters invoked periodically. Have you had a look in Activity Monitor to see where all your power is going?

I'm using two non-Apple apps as the core of my workflow (Opera and Alacritty for terminal: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty) but my battery life is still excellent. However, I chose them carefully on the basis of their efficiency. Things written in Javascript seem to be real resource hogs (Atom comes to mind), and Chrome is notorious for inefficiency in memory, at least.