About my final status, I suppose.
No sir, you were lied to by the nice gentleman.
Over the years a renewal (with nothing changed) has taken up to 5 months to process.
Absolute truth of this matter is, it's few HOURS of work to investigate one of these files, round up to 6 hours total including the actual drive back and forth to the interview.
They throw them in a stack and wait until literally THE 90th day (in most cases) to print the card.