I should add that I have been e filing for the last ten years at least
Dunno.
I wonder what rules they use to determine the order in which returns are processed? One would think FIFO but apparently it is more complex than that — after all this is the federal government.
I’m retired and my returns are pretty straight-forward with just investments, SS and standard deduction. So I doubt mine raised any manual intervention flags so maybe that helped.
Hope you get your refund soon.