Spot on. Hiding comments fixed a problem that never really affected me. No longer being able to assess a large page of comments without reading them all means

Spot on. Hiding comments fixed a problem that never really affected me. No longer being able to assess a large page of comments without reading them all means I rarely read comments anymore beyond the first one or two top-level comments and their immediate children. I just don't have the time. It might be more workable if you could collapse threads, Reddit style. Often so much of the discussion is in children of the top comment, you can't determine which part to read.