categorically she spoke good English, I double checked everything, showed her my TM30 and she said "yes that's fine so long as you have reported on the TM30, don't need to do anything else" then she went on "at 180 days either do a border bounce to laos or come to immigration and extend, the cost is 1900tb"
Really she can't make that all up, it maybe a smaller place, but they have been very good to date and speaking to others have been spot on for years, even with fines!
The entire globe literally is trying to loosen visa restrictions and entice people, moreover modern remote workers, the likes of Spain are doing it, but in the east its a race to gain tourism after the pandemic, look favorably upon this, it's not going away, maybe some don't like the new norm, but it's here and Thailand are embracing it, hopefully its respected.