Troubleshooting SharePoint Auth prompts and Anonymous access with Fiddler - Is there a better way?

I've troubleshooted (troubleshot?) many SharePoint sites for anonymous and random authentication prompts. It usually winds up being something not checked in or published, but sometimes it's something more random, like a survey list based on a template from
another site prompting for auth even when configured for anonymous access, but when created manually, question by question, works fine for anonymous, and other random things I've run into in the past. In these situations, I almost always break out Fiddler,
and then almost always move on to the tried and true method of "trying different things" until getting it to work.
Because Fiddler almost never, in my experience, produces actionable results pointing at a specific file or problem. Am I alone? And if not, does anyone have anything better they've used over time?
Thanks!

That is as close as you're going to get to the element that isn't loading, although if it is a reference in a page, you should see the error when attempting to load the reference.
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