Most of the people who vetoed the idea originally made their feelings known here:
While I see your point, my feelings are similar to theirs. Politics is everywhere on nearly every other space. It requires a very tight and super-dedicated level of moderation to prevent it from becoming a giant killer space lobster which ultimately invades and sinks the entire board. Not saying it’s impossible. But it would be damn hard to pull off.
[ETA - There’s a locally famous (and famously bad) newspaper which finally shut down its Comments section altogether. Because whichever big conglom took it over was no longer wiling to invest even a token level of time in making it not-a-total-dumpster-fire of trolls each and every day. You can argue that by doing so, they just offloaded the problem onto a lesser space. In fact, their notorious trolls simply migrated to the space of a lesser publication which still maintains that bad interaction is somehow better than no interaction. lol. This world… it is what it is. Sometimes.]