the only thing really giving it the creeps is this sentence:

d) these second pair of weaker keys were used by mistake to create the csr (because the key labels were similar) and signed by our root

by looking at the notBefore fields, we can see that they are not created in batch:

15:35:09    DV TLS G3C
15:37:41    OV TLS G3C
15:39:31    EV TLS G3C
15:54:08    DV TLS G3B
16:00:12    OV TLS G3B
16:03:31    EV TLS G3B
16:08:27    OV CS  G3B
16:38:40    OV CS  G3C

so, was this mistake made in a script somewhere, or did a human make this mistake 8 times?

it seems more plausible for this mistake to happen once in its opinion, and not 8 times