From what I understood, once you start needing to collapse threads, you're already at the threshold of "more comments are detracting from the quality," or that

From what I understood, once you start needing to collapse threads, you're already at the threshold of "more comments are detracting from the quality," or that was the theory, anyway. I'm almost certainly misremembering. I feel positive about this change though, I just was curious about the decision making process is all, thanks.