I mean, to be fair these guys are paid the lowest dollar and subcontracted at this point. They literally aren't paid enough to make ends meet, they are too distracted worrying about their lives and family to bother worrying about some poor design that involved having movable panels crossing a pattern forcing an unnecessarily specific alignment.

Open all of them... Only place cover back when you're done.

Chalk

• rain washes it off after a few weeks
• only have to open one at a time instead of 2+

Your loop condition fails the next street where there's a round hole without a distinguishable pattern

You'd have to be pretty dumb to not be able to keep track of 6 lids in a line.