I love this view. Initially, I shy away from this but I started upvoting my post with same reasons you highlighted. As you thought, there noting wrong with it since it is made available. It can easily be disable or let me say remove if it is not needed.

I may not be upvoting every comment to my post, but I always try to reply. But I think, you make sense with that, I may join that strategy.

Here is my graph