In reply to Peter Knight (@peterrknight).

The Godin example may be a poor one, as he is certainly an exception, plus he's not on WordPress :)

I agree the commenting feature needs more love/development, etc., but I still argue that it would be better served within a plugin instead of core. And it think there should be an "official WP" commenting plugin maintained by Automattic, similar to Jetpack, Akismet, etc. It would be easier for others to contribute to it, submit pull/push requests, etc.