What's the purpose of earned merit? does the user with 270 earned merit should be unbanned than the user with 32 earned merit? check the thread and you will see the user with 32 earned merit deserve to get unban than the 270 earned merit.
I'm not really sure if this thread is important because most of users got banned shouldn't get unban or changed to signature ban, only few of them deserved.
the OP just made a 2023 version of the thread he shared at the bottom of his post, he is not saying or implying anything that someone should be unbanned. also, judging from the link the OP shared the purpose of the thread is to make it easier for global mods to quickly find ban appeal request that has been created in meta(I am not saying that the thread would help much though).
I've decided to gather in one thread information on all requests for unbanning and progress of current unban. Maybe this topic will save the Meta section from turning into [UNBAN APPEAL] and will help global moderators to navigate faster in requests for unban.