User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-5275700-20161001024821/@comment-24258073-20161101052336

Because replacing features in this circumstance would be more complicated than you'd think. Staff could just do that but doing so just wouldn't be quite right. It's hard to explain and I'm not sure I'm exactly the right user to answer this, but obviously Staff have their reasons not to do so right now.