I said it before, forums are not an efficient way to do bug reporting. There’s no way to control the information you receive. Bug reporting apps (web pages) capture required information for the devs to act on. It’s easy to review and sort out one-offs vs operator errors vs real issues. The public side is a list of reported issues such as “Plugs disconnect and blink - version .172 - Fix in progress,” etc. All bugs go through the bug reporting page. Forums also get into side chatter that make it difficult to sort out problems and may add trails that are not relevant to the issue.
The same is really true for the wishlist. Any suggestion needs a quick triage from the dev team: Is it a good idea? What is the level of difficulty? What else might be impacted? Once that review is completed, it can be another status page. A forum suffers from the same problems in a wishlist that it does in bug reporting. It’s difficult to manage. Also, software wishlists aren’t a democracy. An idea from a couple of users may be a great idea while an idea supported by hundreds may not be practical due to other considerations; or may require a lot of time due to system interactions. The triage status, along with a quick comment from the dev team, makes that clear. Often, the things that users think are easy can be complicated and vice-versa.
I think the forum mods are doing the best they can but the systems in place for such a large, varied, platform are neither fair to them, the users or the dev team.