I can live with it. But man, it generates so much noise. I'm getting tired to mark read every time someone likes my replies or marks them as good.
Indeed. My Inbox is full of so-called unread messages, although I have (probably) read each of them, just by navigating to the thread. This makes it hard to notice, if someone would write me a PM I guess. (I don't know if PMs use the same Inbox icon).
Even such a small thing like hitting a reply button and a view jumping to the top hiding the last message in the thread (which i probably want to have before my eyes to post a reply).
Yes, it scrolls to the bottom of the page and you lose focus of the message, you want to reply to.
Otherwise it feels good to me. But I am not such a power user like you :-)