@polotek Honestly, I miss the ability to quote-boost. But I think it's OK that it's not on here even if it's not perfectly convenient.
The thing I really enjoy about Mastodon is that it treats everyone as a first-tier contributor. And part of that is the way that every user is given extensive control over the use of their posts.
QT takes that control away from the author (in the case of "dunking" that's precisely the use case for the feature).