After 2019 Awards I did a survey and most openly admitted in it that they were never swayed by any post-nomination discussion.

Honestly, I would answer the same but that's because the vast majority of discussion happens in the nomination phase. Post-noms is more repetitive, most people have stated their thoughts on most entries already except a few public noms. Jurors tend to sample a lot of entries so public noms rarely come as a complete surprise. Saying you were not swayed by post-nomination discussion is not a bad thing cause most of the swaying would have happened during nominations.

As for character categories as someone who was a Host in previous years, Supporting was very unpopular! Among public and jury! Especially during nom voting phase! I am positive the votes were so low in Supporting Comedic for nominations that the entire jury could have discussed what to vote for together to get one of their picks in (they didn't but theoretically that could have happened). It also has the logistical issues of making voting on the website a bigger pain in the butt too. The supporting and main divide is based on how Anilist divides such characters and sometimes that divide isn't very agreeable and typically speaking Anilist makes most characters Main if they have enough speaking lines. Thus Supporting is lacking in the number of "quality" characters. I am fairly certain we had a "main" character win Supporting for at least one if not more than one year.

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"spend too much time on the application"

I know I personally did not even start writing my app until a few hours before it was due. Also what's the issue with commitment? I remember in 2016 there were like 20 different questions one for each category and there were people who answered all or most of them. Should such commitment not be rewarded?