It's only as difficult as it is because early on, the Masto Devs decided to pick a side on the quote-tweet debate, wherein attention-whores got mad that people could QT them and steal a tiny crumb of their attention.
Whereas intelligent, thoughtful people were using QT to say, e.g. "Here, this person has an interesting take on XYZ, and this is what I think about that." to their followers/audience.