What do these immigration officers think I wonder, that we are all countryless and coming to Thailand for their social welfare benefit system 😂 to get free housing and schooling, to get access to a free healthcare system. Like you say, there are people wealthy enough to travel long term and if they are complying with Thailand visa exemption policy (as I did last year), what is the problem? We are all paying money into the Thai economy while we are there. Constantly. The scales are tipped in their favour financially.
Thailand is turning to 💩, all the Russians in Phuket, Chinese now worried about going there, now they are turning away genuine tourists on a Thailand Visa exemption scheme...how to screw things up.