The threaded view is simply not available.

I was trying to do a forum and clearly the threaded view is the best way to go about it. But there are no options.

I went to countless freelancers and they all said absolutely we can do it but they all did the same unthreaded forum that I don't like... When I showed them what I wanted they stopped responding.

It will take someone to actually update the code and apparently that is basically redoing everything. But since I am not a coder, I don't really know.