Harsh. Being as I am part of the authority in question, I'm nevertheless as anarcho-syndicalist as the next person. If I had my druthers, we'd publish everyone's address and phone number, and we'd all routinely hang out at each other's houses and/or at the local Chinese restaurants. Alas, here we are marooned in the 21st century, some of us even in 21st century Amerikkka, and we're stuck with austere substitutes such as comments on projects.
We are on record as promising to implement comments as soon as we can. We've been promising that for years; we really do need to put more development into software support for the community. Our excuse is that we're a zero-budget project with a staff of six, most of whom have day jobs. (Even Jens, who is theoretically paid just to work on Snap!, actually has to spend a ton of time giving talks at meetings of various kinds in order to keep SAP, his employer, happy.)
If you happen to be rich, you could give us ≈$1M to endow a permanent job slot for a programmer. Or, if you're a lawyer, you could surround us with legal armor to protect against getting sued (or just shut down) when y'all molest each other.
Otherwise, we'll try our best. We, too, desperately want an engaged, active community of learners.