I’d love, love for this to be true. But also “quite Portugal” is inconsistent interpretations of policy/law/etc. I just wrote about the “judge lotto” when suing AIMA here, for example.
“We have received verbal confirmation from the immigration services in Porto, along with an official email confirmation from the Agência para a Integração Migrações e Asilo (AIMA), specifically from the Unidade de Apoio às Autorizações de Residência para Investimento (UARI), the department responsible for processing Golden Visa residencies. Both sources have confirmed that the submission date for residency applications will be recognized as the date the application is submitted online.”