Hey @jordantrizz thanks for your patience. I wanted to review this again in light of changes made last year.
After reviewing this again, this is in fact a desired aspect of the WP Discourse system, to allow for flexibility in how folks manage native Wordpress and WP Discourse comments (e.g. some people use both at once).
To administer Wordpress comments, including the use of /wp-comments-post.php, please use the native Wordpress settings in Settings > Discussion e.g. “Allow people to submit comments on new posts”.
For further context on this see for example