Why one and three groove valve keepers?

That is true, but a SFT cam will beat the valves up fairly quickly because the lock will turn on the valve. You see this when you look at the valve and the material between the grooves is gone and they are razor sharp. That means the lock was beating the hell out of the valve.

Never had a Hydraulic flat tappet cam but one. Maybe not as radical as yours. Hundreds of thousand miles on a couple engines, stuff looks like new.