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You are 100% correct in this.
And if I, a hiring manager, had to interview 30 people that week and couldn't decide who to put on the short list, I am definitely going to remember people who put in extra effort, and if we did have a great conversation, it can only help you if you remind me of that fact.
As a manager, I'm not sitting in some cushy lounge delighting in the misery of applicants, I'm struggling to both do my job AND interview people. It's fucking exhausting and takes up massive amounts of time. If I make a bad decision with company money, then my ass is canned. And there are a lot of people who half-ass it and are just giant wastes of time because they obviously don't want to work.
Why am I going to give extra time and attention to someone who doesn't want to be there? Someone explain it to me. I am astonished how many people don't understand the very basic basics of employment.