Two rejections, both citing "low-value content." I almost rewrote every page. Then I dug into Search Console and found the truth: my content was fine (6,600+ clicks, avg position 6, 191 pages indexed). The real killer was timing — I'd submitted right when my page footprint was exploding and traffic hadn't ramped yet, so to Google the site looked like a thin, freshly-spun content farm. I withdrew, waited for traffic and indexation to stabilize, changed nothing about the content, and the picture flipped.