IME the reality of the modern world that there's little genuine appeal or reconsideration anymore. There is some sort of process but it's Byzantine and if we're talking the government, expensive.
I guess everyone has had different lives but between humans and algorithms I take the algorithm every time.
And ChatGPT has the benefit of being able to do 10-100x as many screens as with a human. Even if it's grossly wrong half the time I'm ahead on volume.
The only reliable and high quality signal is a positive referral, but those are gated by your personal network, which may not be well developed.
That has pretty much always been the case, but what I've seen lately is even the referrals get put into the AI and then rejected before they're even looked at.