Use feedback as a decision tool
Structured feedback is most useful when the author reads it as a map of choices rather than as a command. It can clarify strengths, friction, organization, reader fit, and revision opportunities, but the author still decides what the work should become.
A careful report can help an author see the manuscript as a reader may encounter it, especially when the author has been too close to the material for too long.
Keep boundaries clean
A report is not publication acceptance, agent representation, marketing approval, or proof of future sales. It is a governed private deliverable based on submitted material.
That boundary protects both the author and the publisher because the work can be useful without making promises it cannot support.