Apple account recovery is legitimately the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen

At the most is should take a week wait to recover, not 15 days, not 30. A WEEK AT THE MOST. My phone is the ocean along with my card that I don’t have access to now, and everything it’s saying for me to provide is no help to me in this situation. I need my number, email, and card, to speed up the process and at this point I only have my email because of the situation. There is no reason it takes an entire month even for security. It’s entirely inconvenient, I don’t have access to my accounts to close my cards, let alone the phone number to recover my account. I’m losing money on things that I shouldn’t have too all because I can’t call the Apple to prove that I’m me. I can’t go to the store and prove myself because “it’s up to the system”. Why is the **** system deciding whether I should get my account back over a person. Seems very incompetent of Apple to let their customers lose money like this. I can’t even access my AppleCare+ to see if I can replace my phone because I need the imei code thats ON MY PHONE. This is the slowest, most inconvenient process I’ve ever gone through. At this point it’d be easier to get a state ID then it’d be to unlock my account. I wouldn’t be surprised if you lost customers because of this.