Thanks for chiming in guys!
I actually have it unchecked already.
From my understanding, you still have to enable comments on the specific post you want comments on. Like this…
If I deselect that, and save the WP post, then the “Comment” metadata in Wordpress goes away. Think of the comment count, which doubles as a link that drops you down the page to the Discourse link to the forum. Most people rely on that Comment metadata link at the top of the page to know they can comment, without going to the bottom of the page.
I see, reading carefully, the first screenshot I shared essentially says, posts using WP-Discourse still have the WP comments template. I thought it was replaced. So then, I’ll test out turning on this second setting. That would prevent spam and anyone not logged in from using the hidden WP comment template, but still allowing everything else we want.
