normally I would just drop this into an open thread as a comment, not make a whole quasi-article about it.

If you make a quasi-article about it, readers checking "summary" pages like /r/discussion and /r/discussion/recentposts can see a summary of it before deciding whether to read the whole thing.

I plan to stop my habit of regularly checking /comments and start checking /r/discussion/recentposts instead, so I will no longer see most comments put in Open Threads.