New Library UI - non-required "Required" metadata

Anyone have ideas on how to promote this topic and get someone at Microsoft to provide some guidance.  My organization really needs to know if this type of enterprise functionality is even part of the future SharePoint.  Or do we need avoid content types and required metadata in our design/migrations?  I see no comments about this elsewhere, or any mention in the roadmap.  Maybe 3rd part workflow/forms tools will need to supplement (would need to think this through and experiment).  Maybe it is a matter of a new way of thinking as pointed out by Andrew Gilleran, but there are business processes that will need to be rebuilt.