There is a slight clash of levels in the English Grammar Profile for the following grammar.
A2 point 39 in MODALITY is defined as:
‘would’ with a wide range of verbs to talk about wishes and preferences.
*’the wide range’ can be understood by the example sentences in the EGP which only contain ‘love’ and ‘prefer.’
B1 point 34 in VERBS/patterns is defined as:
‘would prefer’ + ‘to’ infinitive, often for politeness.
*The main difference is that ‘prefer is connected to politeness. But the way the EGP has it worded, makes it sound as though it is not essential to give this a B1 marker type of status.
On iWeb corpus we did a search for collocates.
WOULD LOVE
1 SEE 38487
2 HEAR 29108
3 WIN 3245
4 THOUGHTS 2993
5 FEEDBACK 2614
6 JOIN 2172
7 PERSONALLY 1157
8 SUGGESTIONS 933
9 CHAT 640
10 OPINIONS 496
WOULD PREFER
1 RECEIVE 820
2 STAY 819
3 PERSONALLY 807
4 AVOID 604
5 REMAIN 432
6 IDEALLY 136
7 FULL-TIME 124
8 RESPONDENTS 94
9 PART-TIME 88
10 ENQUIRY 66