Are there particular responses you have in mind? I can find two comments making this point, one which opens with

>Maybe I just have abnormal leverage

while the other opens with

>I'm curious

The top two top-level comments are responding to this trend, so I assume it is or was present, but I'm not seeing it. I do wish people would reply to the comments they find objectionable instead of doing these meta comments subtweeting them because I find I run into this issue often lately here (pot-kettle objection noted and accurate).

Long ago I once participated on a forum where meta conversation about the conversation was not allowed. It really did a nice job to avoid the kind of (often way off) meta comments about other comments that come up like this.

It's telling if someone can't actually find a comment to reply to in order to address whatever meta issue they're concerned about.