⚠ Re-monetize a channel (+100k subs)

Hi, i have a 100k+ subs channel, it has a lot of good quality videos and is fully compliant, but was demonetized 2 months ago because i uploaded some copyrighted videos, i deleted them but they desmonetized anyway.

The channel has a lot of videos from many years ago (2-4 years) but i uploaded a new video last month to re-apply, but it was rejected and YouTube didn't give a reason.

Now I can re-apply again, do you recommend doing it with the same videos?
maybe last month it was rejected because the copyrighted videos had been uploaded recently, because the channel is fully suitable for monetization and all videos comply with the rules

Waste of time, IMO. Find other ways to monetize.