I wasn't close enough to the process to be certain of this, but I believe you're totally correct here. At least I know that there is no UI for manual issuance

I wasn't close enough to the process to be certain of this, but I believe you're totally correct here. At least I know that there is no UI for manual issuance (or for manually resetting a rate limit condition), so there's no person you can call up and try to harangue/social engineer into doing these things for you.