User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 359: Fairies vs. Demons, Review and Commentary/@comment-8153438-20131113132349/@comment-7418318-20131113134126

I'm actually glad about it.

I usually remember such things and remember them well enough to have a rough idea of when they happend. So if I want to refesh my memory with more details, I can just look them up in the past chapter.

But if a flashback is put into the current chapter, it wastes time (and more importantly pages, which could be used to further the story) on something that you can just look up by yourself if you don't remember.

A very short flashback of a few panels or two pages tops, to help you find the past chapter in which something happened, I'm fine with, but lengthly flashbacks of the series itself I absolutely hate.