Just to comment on the topic at a higher level: I'd like to add my own thoughts to this discussion, but feel it's the kind of topic that blows up into a mess/m

Just to comment on the topic at a higher level: I'd like to add my own thoughts to this discussion, but feel it's the kind of topic that blows up into a mess/mass of opinion such that adding another comment just adds to the dogpile; after a certain critical mass, no-one really reads the majority of comments before commenting themselves, and a positive feedback of repetition begins. Maybe if the discussion was broken into narrow sub-topics this could be fixed?