Your GPT is wrong on PR for two reasons:
1. Applicants do not qualify for PR in 5 years; they qualify 5 years from the issuance of their first residency card - for which the current average processing time is 4 years.
2. There are no available AIMA appointments for non-EU PR applicants, now or in the foreseeable future. So even if you met all the requirements for PR today, it would be functionally impossible to apply.
In short, not only is the 5 year pathway to Permanent Residency a lie, under current circumstances ANY residency-based pathway to PR is a lie. The Golden Visa itself is a lie. This fact stayed hidden while applicants had the ability to apply for citizenship after 5 years, thereby bypassing PR altogether, but now the ugly truth is coming to light.
This needs to be publicized more and agitated about much more. While there is some ambiguity about whether the government “promised” citizenship to GV applicants, there is NO ambiguity about the fact that they promised, and continue to promise, Permanent Residency in five years to GVs, D7s, D8s and so on.