> Separately, if this is an important feature, why not use an extension that offers it? Is there a reason it needs to be built in? Because I only think about i

> Separately, if this is an important feature, why not use an extension that offers it? Is there a reason it needs to be built in? Because I only think about it on average once every few days when I encounter an uninteresting large comment tree in an otherwise interesting thread, which I handle by scrolling for a few seconds. It's very much a "nice to have" rather than a dealbreaker, but for those of us accustomed to the feature as implemented on, e.g., reddit or slashdot, it's a puzzling omission.