Apart from being visually annoying, does it also affect load performance? Is that something you're looking into?
I've been happily pressing the edit button to cycle back to the original post, but I feel like instead of cycling, if it loaded a selector and if it only loaded notes you ask for, that might help bandwidth?
It shouldn't. The events are so small that it doesn't do much. We also delete edits from memory very quickly if the post is not in your list anymore.
But some people have said that Fiatjaf's profile crashes for them because there it loads the edits of all posts. And all of it together then can create problems.