Thank you so you so much for continuing to choose not to build this feature into this instance.
I like Mastodon as it is. I don't want it to become "New Twitter".
Besides, if one needs to "quote toot", then they can take an image and type in what it says on the image description.
I consider that level of effort gives a person time to decide if it's true, helpful, important, necessary, and/or kind.