That the conversation doesn't run on the same rails every time doesn't prevent it being the same conversation, unless we are being literal.
No need to be literal, what you're describing seems to me like a different conversation, just on the same topic. I'd argue that whether the conversation runs the same course as the last or not should be one of your main indicators for wheter you are having the same conversation over and over, wouldn't you agree?
Besides which I'm not railing against suggestion comments, and it's great that Koda now reaches out with explanations, but it doesn't change or alleviate the delays issue anyway. It's just extra crowd control on top of that existing issue.
Like it or not, suggestion comments are part of the conversation about delays. Koda's explanations can also become part of the conversation, making it not run the same course as the last one, which was my point when I brought that up.
The final question is what I'm talking about initially. I never asked for no comments about delays, I asked if there was a chance that the thread might not keep falling into the same drama-cycle over the delays. A question which is now becoming another sub-cycle of that drama-cycle, which is probably my answer.
I'm not sure what you mean by "drama-cycle", if what you're talking about is the doomposting crowd saying that the devs are lazy and scamming people, then I'd urge not to see that as the entire conversation, because it clearly isn't. No matter the case, whenever you have a bunch of people discussing something, you're always bound to get some not-so-great contributors, and if you don't ignore them you risk steering the conversation in a dumb direction.
But as I said before, you can always start a new conversation with a different topic more to your liking, there's nothing stopping you. Like you pointed out, people who say they don't like it when the conversation is about the delays, are just continuing the conversation, and in a direction that I think we'd both agree is not as productive.