either via the automation triggers or as a workspace configuration, when adding a feature to a release, the start date on the feature should be set to the start date for the release.
Currently the release start and end can be calculated from the features or set manually. However, nobody in my Product organization is planning a start and end day for a feature development; that is a commitment made by the delivery team.
Would also be useful to automate setting the end date of a feature to 7, 14, 28 days after the start since that is typically the sprint cycle most Agile teams run on.