This is normal for me when extending my stay based on marriage. Also all the pictures etc.
I had to have pictures every year, for 13 years, when I part-owned/ran a business. Not bedroom and living room. Outside the premises with staff and inside the premises with staff and showing my desk. I considered this just just one of the "costs" of doing business.
I wonder in the cases of Mae Sai and Roi-Et above whether the use of an agent would have ameliorated the procedure.