Ways to add photos to a collection?

When editing images (meaning, performing selects/rejects) I like to use collections. Is there (or can there be) a better way to add images to a specific collection other than dragging & dropping? It might be beneficial to have a contextual menu to send selected photos to an existing collection. As it stands, there's an option to add to a Quick Collection or to find what collections a particular image currently resides in. I don't like using Quick Collections, especially if I have several collections that one image might go into, so it would just double my work to go from Quick Collection and then into the collections I really wanted in the first place.
Is what I'm looking for possible? If not, is that something anyone else here would find useful? What's the method of requesting features from Adobe?

You can press "B" to add to a quick collection for temporary use and then move the entire quick collection to a permanent collection later if you needed to.
edit sorry i missed the OP. Disregard

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