I much prefer the comments now. The comments-style have actually sort grew on me since I originally made that post. Might have been biased originally since I was never exposed to them.
There are some obvious advantages to those comments, automatic identification of poster is one of them, easily modifying your comments and/or deleting is another. From a maintainace point of view, comments are automatically sorted by date too so there is no need to search for the recent section like you would on talk page. It also eliminates the whole archiving aspect of things as far as I can see too since very old comments/threads are hidden by default. But a more obvious advantage is the fact that it's much more interactive to the end-user. It enables everyone (specifically unregistered users) to quickly make comments, albeit some a little less constructive than others. I see it as a positive thing overall.