In reply to Drew Jaynes.

I would give my right arm, possibly my first born, perhaps my second to see some more focus on comments on several fronts. One being, a search that returns individual comments as the results, not just the post where the comment resides. I have found one plugin that accomplishes this but it is unbearably slow with our volume of comments. If more attention could be given to speeding up queries for those of us with massive comment tables that severely and negatively impact comment moderation and other slow comment queries performing full table scans, I would throw in my left arm and even a leg. Some of the problems are discussed in length here: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19901 but a full solution still sits unloved from 4 years ago.