The reason is simple: they are expecting the community to using the voting system!
In other words: the more votes, the more attention*
This is the way they told us how to raise the most important questions from the community!
*although it doesn’t always work like this so it seems.
Example #1:
The following topic back from October 2020 was engaging the community to better reporting in order to help Asobo tracking bugs. It was taking as an example the LOD problems I’ve extensively documented which are still present 5 months later. However it was closed:
Example #2:
The 2 most voted topics for the guided Q&A where nearly the only ones not discussed at all:
Live Dev Q&A: Guided Question - #14 by CptLucky8
Live Dev Q&A: Guided Question - #59 by EvidencePlz
Example #3:
Discussion: April 8th, 2021 Development Update - #75 by CptLucky8