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You can already find those mutual friends - as long as you're willing to check your own friends' friendlists and see which ones this mysterious person with the private profile shows up on.
So on that note, showing which friends you have in common is simply information you already have the means of obtaining, just a few hoops removed.
"Hoops" are important. Like a fence or a lock, hoops don't stop really dedicated stalkers, but they deter enough to have value. There's probably a fair bit of data out there about each of us that is theoretically publicly discoverable; that doesn't mean it's a good idea to publish it all in a nice neat format for everyone to see.
No, my point isn't that it's "theoretically" discoverable. It's very practically discoverable, in a rather short time, too, simply by using ctrl+F and without straying from Steam itself; without depending on a third party database.
It's not even a problem. My point is that what the OP is suggesting can already be done either way.