Admittedly, I'm not on the 'Options are Regressive' bandwagon.

Choice, like Freedom, is not free. We've known that all along. Options do require study, decisions, and often, ongoing maintenance.

We can simplify software (and more to the real point, we can reduce the work-load of developers & support facilities), by pruning out the user-flexibility.

We can also simply Life, by making ourselves an Island. Or just crawling under a rock.

But besides the massive configuration & functions-options of the original Ajax Edit Comments - and a bigger concern to myself - there is the possibly-related sheer bodacious size of this plugin.

Ajax Edit Comments consists of 159 files in 28 folders, totaling 2.5 megabytes. Say what?! Is this a plugin, or the latest Global Climate Simulator?

It's important to me, that code in general and plugins in particular, not be 'overly' large & complex ... relative to the goals & application.

I've stroked my chin for some time at AEC: 'Is this thing as 'overly' as it looks ... or did it tackle a helluva job, and what we see is what it's gonna take'?

I'm encouraged by the discussion here, suggesting that the size of AEC may not be just the usual runaway bloat, but a reflection of a high degree of flexibility and configurability, built into the tool.

Until proven otherwise, that's a bold check-mark, for "Keep It".