In general, I’d probably say that “Feedback” and “Feature Request” communication channels should get separated. An acceptable option would be providing a choice at Feedback creation:
“What is this feedback about?
- UI look & feel
- UI text, grammar, spelling error
- Product Feature Request”
In both cases, as a customer I very much want to be able to track the progress of any feedback or feature request that I might make and as noted above the current mechanism does not provide this; in fact b/c I don’t even get an ack or receipt I am pretty sure that I’ve submitted the same feedback multiple times.
So here’s hoping that the Feature Request pipeline (and the Feedback one too) is getting a makeover as part of this Community re-launch.