I’ll suggest something that is probably silly, and very likely not your issue. But your last photo reminded me of something that happened to me during one (or was it two?) steering wheel reinstallations as part of a horn button upgrade.
As it turns out with my setup, there was more than one way to line up the holes in mating parts to mount the steering wheel - one was correct, one was clocked just a little bit off. I apparently hadn’t noticed that the steering wheel was not at 12:00 when I pulled it off (I must have nudged my steering wheel one way or the other near the end of my latest garage entry) but I was able to mount it pretty close to 12:00 as my car sat. When I drove it next, I didn’t notice anything akilter until after I backed out of my garage and was driving forward in a straight line.
You have experienced this several times, so it’s hard to imagine my cause has anything to do with your problem, but I do wonder - when you are sitting in your garage installing the steering wheel “straight”, what are using as a reference to know it starts out actually straight?
OK, time for me to head back to my 5th percentile corner of the tent.
Carry on.