Well, I'm pretty sure the odds of a comment thread (especially on a link with no other content) getting that large without you are slim, for starters.
As someone who knows way too little on that topic, I've gotten a lot out of reading everyone's thoughts (and that's the case in almost any thread where there's a lot of back and forth; I rarely post to the "core" channels like Lightning and BTC, but I lurk and read a lot). I suspect I'm not the only one.