Wow, again, finally. So, it is Plugins related. Disabling the Content - Komento did not seem to do anything. Disabling the System - Komento made the Comment Section go away. The Comment Bubbles are gone too.
Okay, so what does the modules of Komento Comments and Komento Activities do for me? Any links explaining this?
UPDATE: Using link of docs from here:
http://stackideas.com/docs/komento. Even doing things exactly as indicated on the docs still resulted in Comment functions either not showing when expected to show, or showing when expected not to show. But after waiting, and clearing caches and using new browser, the setting changed did seem to show up. Don't know if something else I did triggered this to show correctly, or just a set period of wait needed.
Also, I think what is causing the confusion is some kind of delay or cache delay may exist with Joomla, and so even though setting changes are done, a prior cached display is shown if you had accessed that page recently. Not sure how long the cache clearing or update period is, but I do believe it is within half an hour. Just a guess, if my observation is correct. Created a good amount of frustration because it makes it look like as if it is not working.