Respectfully, I'm guessing you are neurotypical and English is your first language, in which case you are privileged to have the opinion that typos are no big deal, and being misunderstood is harmless. For TalkBass members who have a personal history of struggling to communicate (for whatever reason), the stakes are higher.
I will give you a specific, personal example: My response to Bob Clayton above. I must have edited that a half-dozen times, because it's a fine line advocating for my needs without coming across as pushy, and I don't want the staff to be cross with me. I struggle with reading and expressing "tone" and there are many times I've gone back and edited a post after the fact, not because I made a typo or factual error, but because I wanted to change my tone, to be more friendly and understanding. This is a skill I am consciously trying to improve, and sometimes it takes me a few tries to get it right. If I knew there was a post I had accidentally insulted someone by using insensitive tone or a flat affect, but I couldn't go back and edit it, it would eat away at me to feel misunderstood and that the misunderstanding is permanently non-correctable.
Knowing I couldn't edit my posts makes me more afraid of being misunderstood, and less likely to speak up and participate in discussions. Maybe no big deal for you, but for me in the past, my deficit of communication skills has cost me grades, jobs, relationships, etc. which is why I resist a policy change that would make it harder for me to communicate in my preferred style.
The people who are going to be disproportionately inconvenienced by this rule change are: dyslexic, learning disabled, autism spectrum, vision/mobility impaired, assistive technology, English as a second language, etc. (And it could happen to any one of us, at any time: All of us are just a slip and fall away from having our arm in a sling and needing to type one-handed for a few weeks.)
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