I think most (? certainly many) readers like the links to past discussions. If it were just a list of past submissions, most of which didn't get comments, I'd agree with you.
I also try to drop the ones that got comments but the comments were off topic or otherwise useless.
>>>> Why? tedious for me w/o a join. Or is there a feature lurking somewhere? At a different level stuff like this it strike me as “… nothing to see here move on .. “