It's what the "helpwanted" keyword means. If XForms support was to be rejected even if a quality implementation was provided, then the bug would have been marked WONTFIX.
Comment #83 questioned whether that keyword was sincere and was never adequately answered in the thread.
Comment 83 was not even readable (quite apart from the profanity and the poor English, it simply doesn't carry much meaning; I personally do not see that it questions the keyword being sincere). There are somewhere around 250000 bug reports in Mozilla's bugzilla. The vast majority of comments that are made on them are totally pointless. Deleting comments that look pointless after you've read the first two lines (based on content or author of the comment) is a reflex action for most developers, I would assume (basing this assumption on what I myself do) -- it's the only way to avoid getting bogged down in the spam flood. Oh, and in most cases responding just feeds the trolls.
So I expect no one bothered to read comment 83 and tried to understand it (and even now that I've tried I still don't see it saying what you think it's saying).
I can't for the life of me figure out why mozilla chose to even allow voting if the attitude towards it is so dismissive.
The major benefit of voting from the point of view of some people (myself included) is that it keeps people from making idiotic "me too" comments on bugs quite so much. Consider what the xforms bug would look like if there were 500-some comments on it saying "I want this implemented right now." Then consider whether work would be doable at all in such an environment.
All of these issues could be resolved with a move toward a much more restrictive bug database, of course, but so far that's been avoided.
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