https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/Feedback

The top voted item with 477 items is relatively simple, but has been open 5 years with only a template response from Microsoft:

https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/339410/please-fix-the-string-or-binary-data-would-be-truncated-message-to-give-the-column-name

It turns out that it's a reopened issue from 2005 with a similar generic response. So nearly ten years without a meaningful response for the most updated issue on the issue tracker.

It's a similar case for many of the other issues on the site.

The site itself seems like a good idea, at least they're tracking the problem, but I can't fathom why they can't get some of these simple fixes in. Would this be better if it was open source? Perhaps, but there's still the problem of getting patches / pull requests in past the gatekeepers. Maybe the real money makers come from somewhere else so they can afford to ignore the community feedback, or maybe they're so locked in with existing users that there's no incentive for them to pay attention to them when they can work on getting new customers.