Why?

Most comments tend to be partisan on one side or another, but some are still insightful and help other reasoning. Some publish studies about specific aspects of various working models, collected data on various experience, they are good to reason as well.

The signal/noise ratio is also good as well, because show the current level of social polarization/fracture and help to understand the reasons behind.

Gets a bit hectic to be sure, but I'd rather read a contentious topic here than pretty much anywhere else

...That said - whilst it's a legitimate hot topic for our industry, I'd still trade it all in for more of those classic and insightful threads on obscure algorithms. (The ones seemingly populated entirely with folk who figuratively - or sometimes literally - wrote the book)