apparently I can't respond to comments unless I remove the WIP flag.

You can, but in "WIP mode", the Gerrit UI shuffles buttons a bit. There's a "Start review" button and another one ("Save", I think?) in the other corner that just stores the comments. I _think_ that will be fixed in upcoming versions of Gerrit, but right now there's some hunting involved.

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