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@eugenehunt Sorry for the delay, I thought I had this topic set to notify me of followups, but apparently not.
Excluded pages are usually a separate issue. Mobile usability problems may affect search ranking, but they are not usually a reason for a page being excluded altogether.
I have never heard of Google treating indexed and non-indexed posts differently for mobile usability, but I suppose anything is possible.
If a page is excluded, Search Console should provide a reason for the exclusion. For example, "Duplicate page without canonical tag". More info on the specific messages here: https://www.curiousants.com/game-plan/technical-seo/google-search-console-coverage-excluded/
I'm late in replying to this thread, but I wanted to point out that in my experience, this usually happens when Google fails to completely load the site's CSS files, resulting in broken styles, which Google then complains about. If you ask Google to validate (without changing anything) and the errors go away, then you know it wasn't a real problem. If the errors don't go away, you might want to dig deeper to see what it causing them.
Performance optimization and caching can help reduce how often this happens. Try testing your site with a tool like https://webpagetest.org/ to see how you can optimize. Inlining critical CSS may also help, since it may provide certain important styles even when Google fails to load the main CSS file.
Victor, thanks for your input!
Using that check is a great idea; I'll add that. I also think next time I will place code that uses Genesis functions into the child theme's functions.php file instead. I was already using the mu-plugin for other customizations and just added my code there for convenience, but since it depends on the Genesis theme being active, it's probably better placed in the child theme anyway.