I also think, that around here, some ideas seem to take root despite significant challenges in early comments—this isn’t a matter of not getting feedback, but of not listening to feedback.
Nevertheless, salient top-level comments criticizing the post are nonetheless important for signaling that strong yet intelligent pushback exists (important because of Lonely Dissent reasons) and for coordinating opposition to attempts to introduce a flawed/incoherent/flat-out wrong concept into the site zeitgeist (examples that jump to mind are Kenshō, Circling, etc).
Seems right (Frame Control is an example of this).
Nevertheless, salient top-level comments criticizing the post are nonetheless important for signaling that strong yet intelligent pushback exists (important because of Lonely Dissent reasons) and for coordinating opposition to attempts to introduce a flawed/incoherent/flat-out wrong concept into the site zeitgeist (examples that jump to mind are Kenshō, Circling, etc).