Absolutely agree with BobWP and Kerry. The psychological aspect of turning them off before they commit to writing a comment is great. After I type a comment, I wouldn't like back out of I have to enter details afterwards because I ten to write lengthy comments. And like Kerry mentioned about those not being able to hold a thought more than 15 seconds (hello ADHD), I always like I did here, skip to comment filed and then go back to add details. Great improvement in my opinion.

One core foundation I would like to see though is an extension of reverse comment order. When you have thousands of comments like my site, and you reverse so that most recent is at top, there is a major flaw at the point of pagination where you set number of comments per page. Without custom function or plugin, it leads to just a few comments appearing on the first page until it reaches "x" number of comments per the page settings.