"Feedback is essential to succeeding in writing. Feedback should not be good nor bad, but helpful enough for you, as a writer, to get inspired and not let the feedback write the story for you. It is your story after all!" -OhNoItsTheGrineer
The reason this advice holds up is that feedback points at problems but rarely knows the right solution — only you know what the story is trying to become, so the fix has to pass through your own judgment first. Say a reader tells you your chapter drags in the middle. The useful move isn't inserting their suggested plot twist wholesale; it's asking why it drags, then solving that in your own voice, maybe by cutting a scene or sharpening a character's want. The caution is that this can tip into defensiveness, where every note gets waved away as "not my vision." If three different readers flag the same confusion, that's not noise to filter out, that's signal. Treat feedback as a diagnosis, not a prescription, and stay honest about which one you're actually hearing.
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