That is the plan in the near future. In the meantime, I agree that it’s a bit convoluted, but it shouldn’t be long before commenting happens on the same page.
We’re taking precautions against a potential duplicate content penalty (for both the article page and the commenting thread, since comments now appear in both places). Overall, this should be a boost for SEO since, as you point out, the comments actually appear on the article page, not loaded separately.