I would personally work hard to find a way around prohibitions on quoting replies. In most cases, it can provide much needed context for responses, especially when you are synthesizing ideas and posts from different users.
Frankly, some Discourse instances rely on the quote function for editing and feedback to content creators, who take their work to fellow users for exactly that purpose.
But if it doesn’t work for an instance, then an option to decrease reliance has been provided: