I agree…the mods are too eager to merge all threads into one, thus making it impossible to follow one straight line of discussion, without incessant sidetracking. The only people who could be happy about that are the ones who just like to blabber on and on without any clean topic.
It discourages me personally from posting, or from sifting any of the resulting monsterthreads for anything of value.
While I understand that people might make too many useless threads, the opposite is just as bad - it's like having just one "One Piece" thread with an AD/HD
Better then a whole forum filled with annoying obsessives making a thread for each little quip they have on every issue.