Thanks all, I was clearly mis-informed about it, I will ensure I do my 90 day reporting, good thing I checked, so looking forward to waiting at jomtien immigration for 3+ hours🙂
because I am special of course, but really there is no mention of this requirement anywhere so I tapped into the vast knowledge of this community for the correct answer. If you look back in time you will see several posts like this and everyone at that time was saying it was not required.