User blog comment:Jenburton/An Update on Message Wall/@comment-3388044-20111001062627/@comment-655-20111001122424

"That's like saying "why use a calculator to multiply 36843 by 259643, if it can be done without it?". " - if people were sure that what they get is a fast calculator, they probably wouldn't complain.

The problem is, past experience (with article comments, with chat, or with other flashy new additions in general) shows that what we actually get might be more akin to a base-12 abacus than to a pocket calculator.