@Tordanik First of all, thank you for abolishing the minimum character length at least once for the private messages. I found it very worrying that the forum software also interferes with my private communication.
Thank you also for your second answer, with which you unfortunately confirm my previously gained impression that the current forum governance team is not willing to reconsider the supposed compromise and does not have the courage to at least try out an OSM forum without minimum character length (until 2022 it worked just fine without it).
Another example of why the minimum post length should be abolished. Clear question, short, clear answer!
Could @SomeoneElse have worded his answer differently? Of course:
Yes, such a limit has already been considered.
Is that better communication? At least it sounds more polite.
Does @SomeoneElse have time for that right now? I don’t think so.
Would more characters have brought more information across? Quite clearly: no!
Did it save traffic? No. More characters, more traffic.
Could the question have been answered with a reaction/emoji? No.