Fundamentally any feature request is just an engineering problem. Sometimes they're interesting, sometimes they're not. If you trust whoever makes these issues

Fundamentally any feature request is just an engineering problem. Sometimes they're interesting, sometimes they're not. If you trust whoever makes these issues on your board (or whatever it is you use), why would it be demotivating? You know you're building stuff folks want, because making sure that's the case is what the person making those issues is trying to do. If you can't trust your coworkers, every workplace is demotivating.