As a moderator my inclination would be that discussion about BYOND that isn't an explicit request for a feature, would go in BYOND Discussion.

Feature Requests however, are just that, requests, not demands. Perhaps this is a US/British social weighting difference (perhaps explaining why British customer service is not so customer serving), but my understanding would be that a request is essentially a strong suggestion, that is just as free to rejection by a higher authority. I understand what you mean by the immediacy though, feature requests do seem to be interpreted as OP's number one needs.

My recommendation would be we mark this redundant, and maybe work on better moderator tools (like splitting topics) instead, as currently I can't separate the discussion from the request in the topic you linked without destroying one. My understanding is this kind of moderator tooling is in progress though, just not as a priority for obvious reasons.