I think I've been posting here for 20+ year now. There are other really good forums with really good posters. But none of them have the threaded view that I have found. That is why I spend more time on this one than all of the others.
I do think that the threaded view results in more right-margin pushing bickerfests. But it also make those responses easier to ignore while reading other conversations within the same topic. It would be nice if you could collapse a subthread within a topic and have the page remember that it was collapsed as it appears is the case in that first screenshot.