Bar count for repeated measures

When I use Lyrics, they jump the rests, and only take characters where the notes are (which is what you’d expect with a Lyric). In the example I posted, there are 6 notes per bar – so that’s a lot of spaces needed to manually do the bar count, to move from bar to bar. Many bars have more notes, too!
Another point is that one really wants the bar count in the middle of each bar. There isn’t always a note in the middle of the bar, so number placement is untidy. Of course one can move the number, but that can result in even more higgledy piggledy number location!