If you contact the customer support of your utility company, phone carrier, bank, or other service provider you’ll likely be flooded with requests to rate the experience and provide feedback. Likewise, corporate websites and email communications often solicit feedback via embedded buttons or links to online forms.
What’s with this corporate obsession with customer feedback?
Are these huge piles of feedback actually analyzed and acted upon? Is customer feedback some sort of corporate cargo cult? Or maybe clever marketing by vendors of feedback tools and services?
The impression is the feedback is just discarded or ignored.
I think in most cases is to gather data to be able to better predict performance of a feature. Like discord asking what you thought of the call. It is probably to optimize the bitrate of the streaming audio or video stream where it is acceptable but still as low as possible. Also i think it is to just have metrics, some graphs to compare and such.