chiming in to say it's super dumb reviews work this way. i had a sizeable handful of review comments from people that i literally never knew about until i happened to click the ratings page for a work that had one. i never would have known to look otherwise! either change the name to feedback or make the reviews public: the people writing them clearly expected them to be!
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That's the thing: I'm not even asking for the feature to be radically modified and scrapped altogether; It just needs to be made clear to users that they are just sending the dev a private message and NOT writing a public review, contrary to how it's done on every other platform.
But this thread has now been up for a year and a half without any official answer one way or another, so I'm not holding my beath.