Actually, the second problem is described in this document too, I think I should re-read it every time I want to use IF.
In my example (before posting it here) I've dropped the second IF in the same location without much thought.
That's why it worked for you. That's why it worked in a separate location - I didn't move a second IF there, and again, did not pay enough attention to that.

So, the problem was the second IF in the same location. This is really not an easy thing to understand, so it should be the sole recommendation of denying IFs on the top of rewrite module documentation :)

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