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Problem is many people think feedback is like a help line. It is merely a statistical analysis tool. Feedback does change things but like all feedback, they probably use a variation of the three list method.
List A - items that need fixing - major bugs, UI issues etc.
List B - Items that need fixing but less critical - minor bugs, ui stuff.
List C - nice to have non critical items eg colour of an icon.
So List A will get attention asap, list B when resources permit, List C at some dim and distant point in future.
The more votes an item gets, the higher it will be on a List but that does not mean it will get enacted. E.g. there must be zillions of "stop automatic updates" on home feedback. MS have made a commercial policy decision and this seems to be non negotiable.
The start menu has undergone quite a few changes due to feedback.
So in the end, I use feedback for big issues, but for trivial ones, I do not bother.
Update:
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I use it whenever I encounter a bug, actually. I also check it from time to time to see if other people are experiencing similar issues or if someone has found a fix of some kind. I was surprised to see so many reporting similar problems with Game Mode, for instance. But that's as far as it goes--the "quests" don't much interest me...;)