It looks like tails does not have a separate EFI partition but the main/only partition is also EFI:
So I suspect that the lack of that on your other USB drives is why they are not booting. I don’t know if they are not included by default in the distros that you are trying. Hopefully ventoy allows you to work around that. Otherwise you may need to create the efi partition on the usb manually, or someone smarter than I can give you better guidance on how to achieve your ends.