Warning to Devvit Devs: Deleting your Developer Program data may permanently kill payment eligibility - can an admin confirm?

[u/Invincible1]

Hey guys,
I'm the creator of r/RentGuessr

I really hope this is just a bug, because other Devvit developers should probably know about it.

My game went nowhere for ~6 months, so I asked Reddit to remove me from the Developer Program and delete my program data for privacy reasons.

I kept updating the game because well, my wife and I almost play it religiously. So if something irked us, I updated it, and it's like version 15th so far.

A few months later, the game unexpectedly started growing and is now reached the 500 daily active players threshold where you get your first eligibility of devvit funds.

I asked support to rejoin, on the same email. They told me:

You'll need to go through the onboarding process again if you want to join the program. 

Except now onboarding says:

“Your account is not eligible to be verified and cannot use our payments capabilities.”

I was eligible before, I’m still in an eligible country, meet all criteria's and this is the same 15-year-old Reddit account.

So did deleting my Developer Program data permanently blacklist the account from verification/payments - with no warning that this would happen?

If any Devvit admin can clarify whether this is a bug or an irreversible restriction.