Why are y'all so scared of compaction?

This subreddit seems convinced compaction 'lobotomizes' the model, but I feel like Claude often finds the bugs AFTER compacting, or after I just /clear and point it to the discoveries and learnings written down from last session manually.

do you guys actually think longer context windows and less compaction would be beneficial? do y'all lower or remove your autocompact buffer? or is it just a vocal minority of compaction-haters on this subreddit?

I'm struggling to wrap my head around my experiences vs what I'm reading.