What does the process of tool suggestion look like from start to finish?

I have a question about how tool suggestions are evaluated form start to final decision. Is there minimum number of votes or minimum discussion period required before a tool can be accepted/rejected? Who makes a final decision, users voting for a tool or Mods? Can Mods not accept a tool even if it fully qualifies under the category requirements? I am asking all this because of the app that I use and like, which was first suggested in 2023. After a few months of discussion it was rejected by Mods due to a specific missing feature. Recently a company has implemented that exact functionality, which means the original reason for tool rejections is no longer applicable. I noticed that another PG user mentioned this update in the original thread but nothing followed. So I decided to also join the discussion. I thought Mods didn’t see that user’s response since the topic was already marked as “rejected”, so I made a new tool suggestion post and listed the same app there with highlighted update. My post was up for a short time until Mods merged it into original discussion, which is perfectly fine since it was the same tool suggestion. But the original thread remained marked as “rejected” which I don’t quite understand why. A few days later I replied to Mod’s comment in that original thread asking whether they had seen the recent update. I didn’t receive any response. After about a week I followed up by tagging the Mods but still nothing. So I’m trying to better understand how the process works in cases like this one. I saw that with other tools Mods sometimes give waiting flare if a tool is not quite mature or doesn’t have a certain functionality rather than rejecting. But with a tool I am talking about this missing functionality has been already implemented, that’s why it is strange to me it is still marked as “rejected” under this reason. Shouldn’t this topic be at least open again? Just for more context: the tool I’m talking about is very mature, like a decade or so and it’s a tool from a well known company. It also now hits all category requirements and provides additional options that current recommendations don’t have, so PG community would actually benefit from having more tools to pick from.