Haha, a friend linked me back to this saying that people were replying again.
Since I made this post and in the year since I've had multiple friends telling me they've experienced similar problems, random bans/IP restrictions and a couple even telling me their e-mails have similarly become mysteriously unlinked from their accounts. Take that for what It's worth, but I'm just passing along the information people have told me.
As I've found out since my ban, most of the older, more mature (higher) admins are actually trying to help and make the experience better for players. I've gotten a lot of attempts to help me from various people and some behind the scenes information and in my case, it seemed literally nobody had any idea why I was banned, nor would've wanted to ban me - that decision came from one person only (guess who).
I'm glad for all the support I got from everybody over this and glad for the friends that I've made and still keep in contact with through the various Discords, etc. Stuff's been much more productive without this game, just hanging out, coding, working, etc. It's been fun and other games are more fun. I guess I should really just thank Unixmad for taking away my boring, mindless time sink forcing me to make 90% of my day productive instead of 30%. The day feels much better when I spend my day working towards my dream of being a game designer instead of half of it playing Graal, lol.
Good luck to who's having account issues like mine, best I can tell you is what a higher up Graal admin who will remain unnamed told me: if you think you've made Unixmad angry somehow and that's caused your account issues, the best you can do is apologize and give him some kind of sob story and maybe he takes mercy.