But isn’t there?
The grey Reply is a “reply to post” and the blue Reply is a “reply to topic”.
And visually
OK, I know the difference, but for those that don’t, given the prominence of the blue I’d think the tendency for most would be to click that over the other.
True, the blue is consistent with the bottom reply to topic button. And members should know the significance of the difference. But my life experience has shown that shoulda woulda coulda oughtas are assumptions that often fail.
IMHO if the button in the timeline is to remain it would be better to have it as a reply to post, which of course would be redundant as the post reply would already be easily accessible anyway.