What I like about the general chat topic is that it functions a bit like a chat, you report what happens in the house, now you have to make a new topic everytime you want to report about even just a small thing.
That means I can make a topic and call it "free talk" and then people can comment whatever they like here just like the general chat lol. Again as said it's gonna be a mess and people will have to search through many topics to find info, with the general chat there was just one thread to look through = much easier. I think what you might end up seeing is people posting a lot less because they don't know where to post or if they should make a new topic. Everytime someone is bating or something interesting is going on people have to make a new topic just for that, seems a bit to much. And I have to read through lots of topics to catch up instead of just one topic like we have now, I think people will find that annoying.
But good luck 🙂