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What recourse is there for incorrect close/delete?

Sometimes a moderator closes or deletes a question, but non-moderating users may see this as incorrect.

Closures and deletions are unilateral moderator actions. There is no way for regular users to respond to them.

If users think the moderator made a mistake, what are they supposed to do?

* Are moderators considered infallible and if users disagree, the user is always wrong?
* Do you flag as "other reason: reopen", even though the UX is worded like a request to close the question (which is already closed)?
    * How do you complain about deletions? Do you just repost the question?
    * If you suspect the flag was ignored, because the moderator refuses feedback, what then?
* Do you complain in the closed question's comments, and hope the original mod will see it? AFAIK you can't "@-summon" people to new comment threads in Codidact.
* Do you make a new post in meta, linking to the original question, to ask for a justification?
* If an individual mod keeps repeatedly closing incorrectly, how is this detected and addressed?

Occasionally I see closures where the questions is valid, valuable, can be improved with a few simple edits, can be answered in a useful way (even without edits). Then a mod closes it with little explanation, and the discussion is abruptly halted. Tbh, often these seem like the mod mixing up "I'm confused" with "question is bad" - maybe that assumption is wrong, but there's no way to ask the mod what they were thinking.