It is supposed to follow the Q&A format of the migrated help website, in StackOverflow style. Sub-commenting helps keeps replies focused as actual answers.
Previously, this was said to be due for shutting down from other technical issues. Havenât seen any development yet. Forums governance team meeting - 2024-03-14
- Disordered help and support topics. Can we disable some of the reply buttons?
- Broken reply allowed to Q&A answer
Personally, I prefer keeping some form of Q&A, and hope a fix can be attempted somehow. Semi-relatedly at the risk of reigniting controversies, there was a debate about how to manage off-topic replies in a discussion post before, where I suggested learning from Github hiding comments marked as off-topic.