piunt it Tod, if it was in the detail it would stop the topic, stop the emails, stop the phone calls, stop the fines and take away the risk of loss of visa, it's very simple to add it to the rules.
Where is your evidence, I'm only going on what has been said on all the visa groups, not really bothered either way, but, would be good to see some documented facts over opinions 🤔
If you think logically it's a soft sport you can only get in Thailand, ove played badminton in the UK for 40 years, how can you explain and reason why you need to do this in Thailand for 5 years, that's their question and of course there is no answer, think logically and you will be successful, imagine you are them questioning the applicant!
there was a law in France at the point of purchase that capital gains tax was only due on a sliding scale until 15 years, let's see about that now we're not in the EU, France love their tax and the Notaire is basically a government tax collector lol 😉