Wednesday, June 7th in the morning I renewed my GE for the first time
Thursday, June 8th at 10:25 PM Pacific Time, I received the application status change email and I was very surprised to see I'm approved. About 36 hours between application to approval.

I'm honestly shocked I didn't get conditional approval and need to reinterview given I received GE when I was technically "unemployed" (between college graduation and starting a job), have moved multiple times, and went from zero countries visited (since Canada doesn't count) to seven. Meanwhile, my Dad who hasn't had anything change is still waiting 3+ months for approval.

Now time to try applying for Nexus again, since I didn't want to let my GE lapse and lose PreCheck.