I agree with this complaint. The plugin was designed to pull the best comments from Discourse to WordPress, it wasn’t designed to replicate Discourse comments on WordPress. I don’t think this is the behaviour that people generally expect from the plugin though. What I think people would like would be for the Discourse comments to be displayed in a similar way to how they are displayed with our javascript embed code. For an example of how that looks, see https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/.
When Discourse comments are embedded with javascript, they are displayed on the website in an iframe that is provided by Discourse. I’m wondering if the WP Discourse plugin should add an option to display comments with the Discourse embed code.
One benefit I see with the embedded javascript approach is that work done on improving comment embeds would be available on all types of sites, instead of just WordPress sites. Also, if the WP Discourse plugin only displayed embedded comments, it would significantly reduce the complexity of the plugin’s code.
A possible downside to using embedded comments is that it could lead to increased pageviews on the Discourse site. Unless something has recently changed, each pageview on the blog site that contains embedded comments will count as a pageview on Discourse.