What's up with UserVoice?

I keep seeing these threads going back 6+ years about bugs (features?) with maybe 50 "Yeah, it happened to me too" replies. Maybe a mod posts a link to a UV bug report...eventually, but nobody follows it because, they assume, a community post for support does the same thing. Maybe the mod even explains this, but nobody upvotes the report anyway.

There must be a solution to this conundrum beyond lengthy explanations about how "The devs read the UV, but not the community...". I suggest putting a UV icon in the app itself, like Microsoft does with FeedbackHub. That seems to be working well for them anyway. And no, I will not submit this to UserVoice. I've been down that road too many times to come back 2 years later and find one additional upvote.

Thoughts? Feels? Frustrations? Suggestions?