How about fixing spelling mistakes or improving formatting by moderators? That would be valid use-case for Minor edit where moderators don’t want to bump the topic to the top since they didn’t add any new information to the post, right?
My point is this, without Minor edit, moderators won’t be improving quality of posts (as not to bump them) which will ultimately hurt content on Discourse forums.
Jeff, you have luxury of running forum for community of technical people who are also good in English. So I understand where you are coming from and why you are fighting against Minor edit checkbox since you would never use it. However I would use it all the time, mostly because my community consists of non-technical audience of whom many are not native English speakers.
I just don’t think fixing spelling error or improving formatting by moderators is justification for bumping the topic to the top.