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Google Search Console is Full of Contradictions

Why is Google Search Console full of contradtions? Playing by the rules for SEO should be easy.  Search Engines want something in a certain format, they want to be able to present the user who is searching with the best result for them. So I try to do what they ask, and use their tools to check and validate what I'm doing.  An important page is a bit slow to load - speed it up.  Title tags duplicated - revise the content or remove the duplication. Just recently, I've been looking at a site on Google Search Console.  It has a "Inspect Any URL" search bar at the top.  So after looking and seeing no unexpected errors for the site, I think I'd try the search on the home page.  Three green ticks!  What more could you ask for? Looking at one of the ticks ("Coverage") in more detail, there was a throw-away comment: Indexed, not submitted in sitemap That's the most important page, how have we missed it off the sitemap?  A quick check of the sitem