Are we primarily helping the asker or building a repository (or sticking to the middle ground)?

Good point. While conceptually trivial, it could easily fall apart in the case of deleted sections, merged sections or rearranged sections. Particularly if people comment on sections in the natural manner of:

Section A blah blah blah

Comment: Not enough blahs

Section B Lorem ipsum

Comment: Too much Latin

Section C Lorem ipsum blah blah blah

Comment: See my comments above

And then the author fixes up some stuff and moves Section C to the top and now that comment makes no sense without checking through the Edit History.

So yeah, probably best to leave that piece out of V1.0.