You should actually ‘like’ his post then, as I have. These !@#$ mechanics are genuinely how organizations tend to make decisions if they are open to customer feedback at all.
This is hyperbole in argumentation against implementing cool features. It wouldn’t require anywhere near the development you suggest. Though I will say that that addition of this kind of feature at this stage is highly unlikely; they didn’t even bother to finish implementing basic chat features from decades ago.