Screenshot the current result page and count what's above the first organic listing. Twice now I've had a 'ranking drop' that was actually four new blocks pushed above me, so position 3 became position 3 below the fold. Nothing you write fixes that, but it changes what you do next, which is usually go after the format that's winning the space rather than the blue link.
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Crawl says median depth 5, worst is 9 because of paginated category pages with 12 products each. That's embarrassing but at least it's fixable.
Checked, raw HTML has the title, price and description. Good suggestion though, I'd only ever looked in the inspection tool.
Consolidation is also much easier to undo than people fear if you keep the old content in a file and the redirect map in a spreadsheet. Rewriting 40 pages at five hours a week means the first ones you rewrite will be nine months stale by the time you finish the last one.
Also look at your internal anchors. If half your site links to one with the exact head term and the other half links to the other with the same phrase, you're the one causing the confusion, not the algorithm. Fixing anchors alone settled a swap for me within a month.
Agreed with one caveat, if the old URL has a dated slug like /2021/guide-to-x I'd keep the clean one and eat the smaller loss.
Indexed in two days and single-digit impressions for weeks is completely normal for a new site. On the three small sites I've started, the shape was the same: months 1-3 nearly flat, a scattering of impressions on long queries around month 4, then a page or two finding a stable position around month 6-8 and pulling the rest along. The first real sign of life is not clicks, it's the same query showing up in Search Console day after day instead of once.