I think there aren’t many people who were in the same boat as me but thought to write a quick update for anyone who has similar issues in the future.
I arrived in Canada Nov 2020 as a visitor, applied for PR through spousal sponsorship inland and got PR Dec 2021. This means for citizenship I used the days I was here as a visitor to count towards the physical presence requirements.
I submitted my citizenship application and received AOR Sept 2024 and heard nothing from IRCC until today. In the months of silence, I ordered GCMS notes 4 times and each time they said something about npr not being verifiable even though I explained a few times how I calculated them. As a last ditch effort after calling, sending web forms, involving my MP and not receiving any proper responses, I decided to order entry and exit records from CBSA and submitted the result to IRCC via webform. This seems to have kicked things in gear and I finally received a test invite today. Additionally, they want my fingerprints. Hopefully soon I will have more news to share.