The "downvote if you disagree" has gotten to a rather stupid point here lately.

In nearly every submission I read the comments of these days, I see numerous perfectly fine and valuable comments in gray text.

Since so much good content ends up in that state, it renders such styling pointless. Gray text no longer means that the content is very likely commercial spam or otherwise without much value.

I even go out of my way to read all of those comments. With so much good content being downvoted these days, they often have some of the more insightful remarks.