In reply to Helen H-S.

@Helen. grr, obviously people focusing on the wrong question. The right one is, beside reading (and I assume whoever deleted my comment read it first ;) ) does commenting on make serves any purpose?

The last time I can remember a design decision articulated in a "make" post was canned it was about the new shortcode structure, and the negative comments that canned it AFAICT came from @nacin. Part of the problem is that make posts are being published almost only once the coding is complete, and it is no surprise that the coders are not inclined into rethinking a feature, part is that the posts do not even try to be written in a language people might be able to understand it implications ( https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/03/08/enhanced-script-loader-in-wordpress-4-5/ probably good example, anyone wandering the main change discussed there will reduce bandwidth on core update in the expanse of wasting CPU cycles on the sites being updated).

In addition, people that commented a day after the post was posted, seems to be ignored no matter how constructive their comment is,.in the case of reactions someone explained why emoji's are bad because they are ambiguous and suffer from cultural based interpretation, in the case of quality reduction, a user complained that it is bad to images with fine high contrast artifacts like text.Late commenters are rarely being engaged by the authors of the post.

So what is the point of having a comment section on make at all? Is there any reason that I go there https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/03/09/comment-changes-in-wordpress-4-5/ and waste my time explaining that https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11360 not only breaks backward compatibility, but also has what might be adverse SEO implications diluting the value of other crafted links on pages with comments? With all due respect to @rachelbaker she is not important enough in my life for me to write prose just in order to know she had read it.