OK, I am exaggerating, of course, but this is a natural feeling. It is logical that you think that something that annoys you every time you use Lightroom, must annoy everybody else who uses Lightroom. So if your request is not honored, despite those six votes, then there must be people at Adobe not doing their jobs. There is no other explanation.
Johan,
Speaking in terms of my "day job," which is software product management, it is a real challenge to sort out feature requests and decide which are "representative" of the larger community of users, and which are not. In fact, I can say with reasonable confidence that only a small or maybe even a tiny minority of Lightroom users actually submit feature requests to Adobe on their forum. Or even know about their forum. And there is not just one "community," there are many. We see the existence of many communities right here in this forum, as indicated by the way that people rate their Lightroom experience, and the kinds of questions that are posted.
It just occurred to me that Adobe has never done any sort of "mass communications" to the user base announcing the existence of the forum, at least not since I started to use Lightroom about 2014. However, Adobe can't be relying just on the feature requests from the user forum. I don't read that forum too much, but I can't imagine that someone would say, " Adobe, please create a cloud-based product, and make sure that product is not compatible with the current desktop product. And moreover, please make it complicated and difficult to use the two together."
I have absolutely no specific knowledge (despite living only 20 miles from Adobe's headquarters) of the details of their product management process and their market research methods, but Lightroom is a big and profitable enough product that Adobe must be spending serious amounts of money on various forms of market research, comprising one-on-one interviews, focus groups, surveys, usability studies and direct observation of how users work with Lightroom, "customer journey" mapping, demographic analysis, etc. Again, I have no specific knowledge here. And that would be in addition to overall market size and trend analysis, and competitive analysis. And then there is always the "technological imperative." "If we can build it, we should build it." Lightroom cloudy came about as a result of work in all those areas, and possibly some that I haven't mentioned.
All that said, I'm not going to argue that, "Adobe knows best." Clearly their announcement of Lightroom cloudy two years ago was not done well.
Like it or not, the forum requests are probably only a small piece of the overall picture for Adobe when it comes time to plan new features. That doesn't mean that we in this forum shouldn't try to influence their thinking.\
Phil Burton