Like all others said, look for action around the 150 day mark before your current expiration (around 5/20/2023). I expire in 8/23. I filed in 2/23 and I just got approved in 3/23, almost exactly 150 days before my current expiration. I filed it via paper based on everyone's input here about online renewals.
Hmm strange, I was only asked to provide copies of the last EAD. I think there was an option at the start of the application to let you pick Initial vs Renewal.
Yeah, maybe they updated? I did select renewal but I was prompted to load all the stuff in initial daca application. I'm not sure. I could of misread at the time. I filled out everything online and uploading everything was going to take a long time so I just did a mail application.