Only menu items translated for some languages - No dashboard string translations rendering

One user reported language translation issues in the support forums, following on from #2171. From testing on support side translations strings are not consistently working rendering as expected, with only the menu items translated in some cases, despite languages being 100% or almost 100% complte.

The user who reported this is a Danish translation contributor, with more information in the supporting WordPress topic.

Video created a video showing this behavior on one of the sites from SK support. You'll see the below:

Language switched between German, Portuguese and English in both my WordPress general settings & user profile
Updating from 1.22.0 to 1.23.0 (the issue persists with both plugin versions)

Another video showing Spanish fully translated with Indonesian only translating the menu items.

Indonesian Bahasa - Only tab translated (Listed as 80% translated) Spanish - no issue (Listed as 100% translated) Danish - No translations (Listed as 100% translated) Portuguese Brazilian - Only tab translated (Listed as 80% translated)

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Additional Context

Issue occurs on both sites tested in support
Occurs on one site from 1.22.0 and also after upgrading to 1.23.0
One site did have translation updates available although after upgrading and switching languages the same issue persists
Tested on German, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish and Indonesian (Bahasa)
In each case on support side only the "Settings" tab button is translated
After deactivating Site Kit on one of the problematic sites and activating once more translations worked until they were switched once more - with all translations then reverting to English (apart from the menu item)
No caching plugins active on the 2 sites tested in support
Occurs on support side with just Site Kit and AMP plugins actve (SH info provided below)
On support side user language is set to WordPress default

Support side Site Health info

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Only menu items translated for some languages - No dashboard string translations rendering #2566

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