That customer support has always been teetering between abysmal and non-existent. Even back in the olden days when Facebook wasn’t too bad it was still pretty much awful customer service. It’s just not something they’ve ever really bothered about.
My cousin’s Facebook page is still up and he’s been dead for over 10 years.
They were being really weird about it because it took ages to get a death certificate, because he just disappeared one day, so we had to wait for the authorities to decide that yeah he’s probably dead, but we just don’t know where. I think in the end his parents just gave up with it rather than trying to deal with Facebook.