Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-24006128-20200423160701/@comment-9605025-20200428212352

Your conclusion that this behavior is correct is entirely based on what you think the use of the user talk page is. However, the use varies on a per wiki basis. Just because your wiki uses them that way doesn't mean other wikis don't use them some other way. In fact, if it weren't for message walls (which BowiQC is complaining about), then user talk pages would be the only place to directly message the user.

Take a look at the dev wiki, for example. You can also look at any Gamepedia wiki or Wikipedia. Most wikis use the user talk pages for direct messaging which is why legacy Fandom redirects you from the user talk page to the message wall.