I was thinking of making a variant of this theme style that implements this idea, mostly to see how well it works and if people like it before resubmitting a PR to do it in all themes.

Hiding all the comments is easy via CSS. It's not quite as efficient as not generating them in the first place though. But the end result for the user is the same - no comments cluttering up their feed and making it super long in some cases.

Making the post body a clickable link that takes you to the post's single display page is also easy.

What I'm not sure of is how to handle the COMMENT button? The options are:

A. Hide Button so you have to click through to the single display page to comment.

B. Show Button and allow writing a direct comment to the OP in the feed (however, after you submit it the only way to see your comment is to click through to the single display view).

C. Button Opens Post - make the Comment button also click you through to the single display page (but then you have to click it again to actually comment).

None of these is an ideal solution. I'm favoring option "B" since all the other action buttons are available in the feed it feels like Comment should be as well. But I also realize it might confuse some people that they can't actually see their comment appear under the post. All they'd see is the engagement emoji count go up one.

Which option sounds better to you?