Man, I had almost the same thing happen with my uncle and a wiring diagram I made him. He kept flipping breakers wrong because I used red and green to mark the hot lines, and he finally told me he couldn't tell them apart. Adding labels with letters and a few stripes fixed it overnight and honestly made the whole thing clearer for me too.

The teal and burnt orange thing probably comes down to both being kinda muted, like they both have some gray mixed in so they don't scream at each other. That's the trick with loud colors, the ones that work usually share a little gray underneath. Snap a pic next time of a fail right next to a win and compare, bet you'll spot it.

Man, my buddy ran a body shop over in Mesa for years and he swore up and down that the driver side rear corner on those trucks was cursed. He had a guy bring in a 2019 that had been hit there twice in one year, once backing out of a driveway and once in a grocery store lot, and both times the insurance wanted him to just pull it. He refused after the second go round because the metal was already stretched thin from the first repair. He told me the inner bed panel behind that spot is like paper after one pull so the dent comes back the second anything touches it. He started quoting full panel swaps on anything with a prior repair there and never had a comeback. Sounds like what you saw in that yard is the same thing, trucks that got the cheap fix and got sold before the damage showed up again.