Would love to better understand why Apple...
Wouldn't we all? Then you need to ask Apple, as they will not see your concern in this user-to-user forum. The Terms of Use to which wwe all aggreed prohibit us on speculating about Apple polices and decisions here.
If you only recently used the "report an issue..." functions included in both Maps for Mac and for iOS, from my experience it took about two weeks for the Maps team for contact me by email. Once in contact, they had my issue resolved in about 36 hours.
If you used the report function, the response would go to the the email address that is your Apple ID. Check that one if you normally use other addresses.
I believe it helps when communicating these issues by any means with the Maps team to says that "some other" mapping service has your information 100% correct. Nudge nudge.
This is all the help you can get form other end users at this point because, outside out personal experiance, we have no accurate knowledge og how the Maps review/correction syste works.
You can complain to Aple using a feedback link:
Feedback - Maps for iOS and iPadOS - Apple
Feedback - Maps for OS X - Apple
but the only guarantee is that an Apple employee will see you complaint, but not be required to answer.
Complaining in these forums will not resolve this.