Secondary Posts (non-CPT) for theme

Hello fellow WordPress developers,

I’m currently constructing a theme for an online e-sports publication. I’ve been at it for about a week and a half, and the site is turning out to be beautiful. Distinctively on our current site (http://www.esportsheaven.com – which is non-Wordpress, custom PHP CMS), we have two types of posts that you can create; News & Features. As we’re porting our whole entire staff over to the new site, which is WordPress due to the benefits that it has compared to our current site.

Here’s where I’m struggling. I’ve created a custom post-type for “Features” (as well as changing Posts to News via a rewrite function). The Features are pulling from content-single, so luckily, they look exactly the same as posts, except in one way – Comments. Comments will not show, nor will they even allow me to open them via the panel. Another down side is, the permalink for CPT is default /features/post-name, instead of how I’d like to do it (category/post-name).

I’ve considered just making a “News” category and a “Features” category and have them both through posts; however, with that comes confusion as we have writers who write one or the other and I’d prefer it to be separate on the UI.

Does anybody have a solution to making another post type, not a normal custom post type? Thanks for the help in advanced!