How can I get Apple to pay attention to improving spell check and grammar?

I love this company and the products they develop.   I am embarrassed at the number of Apple products that I have at this point.  However, I have to say that the spelling and grammar check on Mac Mail is awful.  I am a terrible speller, and am constantly forced to go to Google to find the correct spelling of a word that seems to totally confuse Apple spell check.  But here is the thing, you often need only have one letter missing or incorrect for Mac's spell check to show no results. 
For example: cannibalize.   Try spelling it with one "n" and the spell check will show NO results.  Use two N's correctly, but replace the "i" with an "a" and again it is completely useless.  Obviously, this is ridiculous.  What good is a spell check that get's confused if you are one letter off of the correct spelling?  There are thousands of these examples, and sadly, I seem to find them all. 
Moreover, when it does have suggestions, they are in a ridiculous order as well.   If it suggest 5 or six words, it generally seems to suggest extremely long tail (rare) words first, and the have the most commonly used words listed last (or again, not at all).  
Grammar is similarly awful.   It is the ONE area as far as I am concerned that is clearly better on Windows and Google Apps, and yet seems so basic these days.  It's been around for 20 years for goodness sake. 
I bring this up in the hopes that a truly motivated developer will fix core functionality.   In the meantime any tips for me (besides snarky advice about learning to spell).
Rick

I totally agree with you, I as well, cannot compose any complex messages in Mail, however I'm am stuck using a browser extension like "Gramercy" to assist me! Maybe after many replies Apple will address the issue

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