You can see in the attached photo that the rivet on the bottom clearly prevents the right-hand side of the cards in the two front pockets from sitting flush in their pocket.
Well, dummy, you just cut the bottom right corner off of each of your cards and then the wallet will work just fine.

Good point! The strip is, after all, at the top, so I should be fine

I took a more practical approach: don't use the stupidly designed wallet

I was eventually able to get a card into that pocket, but with a force just shy of bending the damn card in half. So yes, it fits, but the design still blows.