You know it’s funny @SaintSovereign I’m a manager of an IT support desk at my job. I’ve been there from the first tier and worked my way up. It also used to be smaller, then it grew. None of it scaled well because of humans lol. I don’t get pages of emails, I actually get the opposite. People throw in one line requests and then expect magic. “Support” is such a nebulous term in people’s heads which translates to “This is a problem, I need help, therefore they should be able to solve it”. That path of least resistance and outsourcing a problem that should be solved within their own department, in this case someone’s life. The parallels you write here are giving me awful flashbacks lol.
All that being said I don’t think word count would even save you. They’d probably just start a new reply when they hit the wall to sidestep the char limit.