Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Why discussion?

The subject of this discussion refers to Flow Portal, the table with "expectations" vs. "current reality". Taking the current reality point by point (and noting that it only lists the negative point, I hope that the devs are also taking into consideration all the positive points of the current reality!):
 * "Conversations that thread to infinite depth": everything I have seen from Flow has the exact same functionality (but hopefully it works better than LiquidThreads, which break down after 65 or so posts in one thread!)
 * "Comment authorship shown at the end of comment or not at all". But in Flow, like in the current reality, the "section header" is not signed (and can be changed by anyone), and apparently the OP is also not signed.
 * "Inconsistent reply system (whose talk page hosts the conversation?)" How will this change? If I get a message on my talk page in Flow, I can still go to the user talk page of the other user to reply. Perhaps the "reply" button will increase the likelihood of conversations staying together, but it certainly isn't solved magically by Flow.
 * "Wikitext/code" which will remain in Flow, according to the latest promises
 * "Notifications only when the conversation happens on their own talk page" or through Echo of course. On the other hand, I have not been able to test this with Flow anywhere, but with LiquidThreads, when looking at e.g. your contributions list, your post in a thread will be the "current" post no matter how many replies there have been. If this isn't improved in Flow, then you have solved the notifications problem and created another, equally serious problem instead.

Tackling the expectations:
 * "Easy to distinguish topics"; not in the current setup. What is the difference between two sections with the same title, and two discussions with the same title/subject?
 * "A "reply" button" Yes, but not consistently (again, judging from the Flow sandbox), where sometimes I can top-add a reply, and sometimes I can't.
 * "Obvious and consistent comment authorship" apart from the title and subject header, that is
 * "Automatic "signing"" is the same as above, basically. Furthermore, what with places where you don't need to or are not wanted to sign? Starting RfCs? Adding templates to talk pages? Will there be a possibility to disable automatic signing where needed?
 * "A simple comment field". A bit too simple perhaps? What if I want to present refs or other more complicated stuff? What with pages or sections that need a different format (like numbered responses in !votes? Articles for Creation pages on enwiki, like en:Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Graft versus tumor)?
 * "Notifications of replies to all discussions" Will there be an "unwatch" possibility per discussion? And will there, on the other hand, still be a useful "watch" possibility to be notified of new discussions or changes to discussions you haven't yet participated in?

The current prototype, and what I have seen from the documentation, make it impossible to judge whatever it is that is being developed. Considering that first rollout to enwiki is expected for next month, this seems to be a problem