"Well, they've made you a job offer. Whatever your prior was on that, it happened, so go ahead and update."
"Being fair, a number of computer systems apparently agreed with you about your sense of the implausible. Their priors will be updated."
"It's a longstanding problem of Civilization to build a social system where guesses, heuristics, proxy measures don't ossify into, as you put it, requirements. Especially requirements about people. The social-system-builders try to not have it happen, and it happens anyways, especially when people have to delegate part of their judgment to other people who feel more comfortable working to rules. Computers make everything worse, but there isn't enough human attention-resource in Civilization to live without them."
"You do, in fact, fail to meet Exception Handling's entrance heuristics for candidacy, but that's fine because you meet Exception Handling's actual performance metrics for hiring. So while it might become a problem if you want to apply as a candidate, it should be fine if you just directly start work." [Humor.]