The comments feel like they were added on to the program as a "nice to have" and weren't truly integrated into the layout and design considerations of Acrobat. For example, shouldn't they be treated as another "layer"? Having the comments panel on the right hand side makes it feel like there is a whole separate system that is handling the comments as an after thought and this shows in the way they are then handled downstream.

Printing comments is a nightmare, whether they display our not is a nightmare, when the reply box will cut off a lengthy comment is unknowable and printing such a comment is a nightmare. These really need to be just treated more like a special feature layer where you can picture intentionally which ones to show with a pushpin to hold that one open (or better an actual property and dialogue box with options).

It would be great to know for sure with intentionality:

 * Visibility on Screen: Open, Closed, Hover
 * Visibility on Print: Sidebar, Over Text, Locked Position, Summary Only
 * Appears in Summary? 

For Business Users may some extra options like:
* Priority
* Mandatory?
* Seen by

Finally along with treating the comments as their own independent layer, they then must not be only an add-on in the print dialogues where I can't actually see how they will look when I ask for a Comment Summary. This should be a page that I can interact with and hopefully customize. This should be a feature that you have to "preview" or "refresh" to generate to save it from being too frustrating as it slows the program down trying to update the summary page as I'm typing new comments. Too many comments and corporate oriented features are too intrusive and demand resources that in all honesty very few people actually use. Don't make "Clippy" or "Copilot" or "Contextual Menu Bar" which are all super pushy and intrusive. Make a button at the end of the comment bar menu that says "Preview Comment Summary Document" and let me save that or have those extra pages be literally added to my document and refreshed on a click.

Ideally this feature would work very similarly to how an "index" or a "table of contents" or programmatic image linking and captioning from a CSV file work already in InDesign.

Thank you...
Phil

P.s. This comment layer feature should also allow for not modifying highlighting and commenting on a PDF/A and other archive type formats that we can't touch the underlying original document but may need to redact portions or highlight and circle things for context and wayfinding. I have had to deal with redacting bank statements for a court filing to remove the account numbers and such and it was a whole hoopla.