Does the “Ask follow-up” feature come at the expense of the “comments” feature?

Who knows; but if the new Ask Follow-Up questions are meant to be like the old Ask Follow-Up questions from 7 years ago, the answer is no:

Charlie Cheever’s answer to What were “follow-up questions” on Quora, and how did they work? (2010)

Once a follow up question is created, it is just the same as any other question on the site.
This means it should be able to stand on its own as a question and, as much as possible, make sense and be clear outside of the context of the original question.
A follow-up question is not a request for clarification on the original question; i.e. “What do you mean by ‘derivative works?'” or similar would not make a good follow-up question since it doesn’t make any sense outside of the context of the original question. The best place for requests for clarification on the original question is in the comments on the original question.

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