God, exactly. I don't come to news aggregators to see user profiles. I don't come for chat. I don't come for suggested articles. I don't come for any of the 'new' features people seem to want to cram into every god damned thing (Reddit, I'm looking at you).

I come because there will be insight into articles/stories that I won't get from any other site. And all you need for that is a simple threaded discussion.