That isn’t how the Wishlist works.
Wishlist topics are regularly reviewed by Wyze. The number of votes is one of the most important factors. This topic has 51 votes, including mine. Some have thousands of votes. The Wishlist category is sorted by the number of votes by default, however it can also be sorted by other metrics.
Also, the practice of merging new threads or off topic posts into existing Wishlist threads or other Forum threads that match the discussion topic is purely organizational so that users get more visibility from their posts, not less. It keeps from having hundreds of related discussions going on at the same time with no visibility of the information posted in the other threads. If a search is done for a topic, it vastly improves the probability that the results will be accurate and that the thread returned will contain the information or solution that a user is seeking so they don’t have to navigate to a hundred different threads to find what they need. IMO, the forum needs more moderation for this. There are far too many users posting new topics who don’t bother to search for one that addresses their concern.
Wishlist topics don’t “die”. All that is needed for a Wishlist topic to stay “alive” is for someone to post in it like we just did. It is then immediately placed on the top of the Latest list which shows the most recent posts listed in chronological order with the most recent on the top. So long as there are new posts, it stays on the top. Recent threads get the most visibility clicks. If you want the thread to be back on top, it has to be “bumped” back up there by a new post or an edit to an existing post.
It would be quickly merged to this thread: