User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Wiki Modernization Stage Two: Page and Article Headers/@comment-26682717-20170317001433/@comment-26273552-20170317014339

As someone who used to thoroughly hate Discussions since its first mention, it's looking like it's not actually that bad. Sure, it's different, and admittedly, not as good to many users as Forums, but just because it's something new doesn't mean it's something bad. It's got a lot of improvements to go through before it's made mandatory for every wiki, so there isn't really anything to worry about.

If you want to suggest a way to make it what you want it to be, you should try civilly talking about that via Special:Contact, not just getting angry about it on public posts like this. I had a conversation with someone about it, and it actually alleviated a lot of my concerns.