I have always believed the thread was a magnificently useful artifact that “long posts” simply cannot replicate.
With threads, users can boost or reply to only that sub-part of the topic they wish to respond to or annotate. You cannot do that with big blobs of (often long-winded) texts.
While composing in #Sidetoolz, I can easily force a new item between texts of my thread simply by clicking on the “break” icon in my composer window. Like so… 1/2