Request to Update: Is there a way to make some fields required

A little bewildered about this lack of solution. I'm a fan of Smartsheet, but there are some missing components that are hard to fathom how a reputable solution like Smartsheet missed out on them. One is not having numeric-only fields. Another is to offer this fantastic update request form option and not include features to require certain fields. There are TONS of online form solutions out there, some built by developers that barely know what they're doing. And ALL of them include required field functionality. I get that this is slightly different in the fact that an Update Request is used when a row of data already exists. At the end of the day, it's still a webform. Sending a subsequent update request is a fairly poor work around. Sure, let's bombard people's inboxes when the solution should be built-in in the first place. We already sent them one Update Request and unfortunately, Update Requests in Smartsheet also don't include a field description in which you could provide them better instructions immediately above or below the field in question (sure you could include in the body of the email, but separating the information has a higher probability of error than putting it next to the data). Smartsheet has many bells and whistles, but there are some very key fundamentals you've missed.