Actually, it didn't enable anyone, there were zero successful applicants under the original program. Much work was spent on the program with no effective benefit (except for painful lessons learned by the team).
How benevolent of them, considering that Applicant Support was started as an ALAC/GAC initiative, initially with explicit LACK of GNSO support and in some corners active hostility.
When did the GNSO acquire the ability to impose its "guidance" on the Advisory Committees? I must have missed that direction in the Bylaws.