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I am a bit like you in that I do spend a lot of time replying to people who leave comments on my post...they took the time to read and reply so I figure it's just polite to respond. But also it's nice talking to people, you know? Never know when some innocuous reply you make will kick off a whole deeper conversation.
PLUS on a platform like Lemmy it also has the advantage that more comments = more visible in feeds = more replies from more people.
All that said, you do have to prioritise. Nobody's thinking you're rude if you just edit your post or make one comment saying "thanks for the input everyone, sorry I can't reply to you all individually but I appreciate the advice" or whatever. We're all busy, and most people probably don't expect a personal reply anyway. Maybe start thinking of upvoting and making a universal reply as the baseline, and doing individual replies just as a stretch goal when you have the time spare.