Can I enter Thailand on a tourist visa if my E-visa is still pending approval?

Anonymous participant - so the Phnom Penh embassy has always said it takes 5 buisness days, plus 1, so that is confusing why you would apply yesterday and have a ticket back tomorrow. Now to this response, first it is a visa approval process so the statement “legally allowed” doesn’t make sense. You can go back to Thailand and that has nothing to do with “legality”, but the embassy can deny a visa. There have been multiple cases where the embassy has followed up and asked the applicant to take photo of every page of their passport. Since you can’t work in Thailand, it is also not clear what appointments you have to make that can’t be postponed or done virtually