I'm new to Voyager and I keep replying to comments with the Reply to POST button instead of using the comment hamburger. If it's an original reply to my post, it's the only comment on the screen.
Not sure what to suggest, but there has to be a better way.
I'd even consider it sensical to entirely get rid of that big reply button, since it's very unlikely you are in this particular place (clicked the comment in the inbox) to make a new original comment to the post.
Yes, I think android got appropriately dragged both for having sloppy parameters and for not enforcing their policy uniformly.... Maybe someday they'll get it right, but I'm hoping we get a decent android desktop first.