Feature requests edited with confidential "We're thinking about it" comments

I’ve noticed a couple of my feature requests had been edited by staff members that added in “We’re thinking about this” in confidential tags. I can see the reasoning behind not wanting to bump the thread back up to the front page, but why post the comment in confidential tags? Only the OP will be able to see it and that may result in more feature requests for the same feature because others didn’t see the confidential “We’re thinking about it” message.