Plot holes. Sigh.
Any narrative, but yeah especially filmed ones (films and tv), will have to have some approach to the question how much to explain to the viewer. For me a plot hole is not something that such a work failed to "fully" explain (as in to the satisfaction of all viewers) what happened and why. What is also necessary for a plot hole to exist is at least some sufficient level of implausibility. By implausible we should understand is meant something which is both not explained and for which what is shown does not provide a sufficient basis for finding an answer to some significant question as to what happened and why to be reasonable.
and of course plausible here is not a synonym for likely. Plausible means it is reasonable to think that could have happened. reasonable, not most likely.
Another thing is a key word or concept here is significant, btw. A plot hole has to concern something significant or you just end up nitpicking for no good reason.
Now, let's take some of the examples cited by the OP. How about $1k overnight? Well didn't Letty have some money, much more than that, left over from before? Is there some reason to think it implausible that she might have taken that much cash with her while visiting her hometown?
No, not implausible.
Perhaps a better example is the ring swap out. We don't know whether Letty might have scoped out the job beforehand. She simply was not shown to arrive at the scene and, what would have required probably a high degree of impulsiveness otherwise, given the risk (or of course a plot hole in not explaining the presence of the fake rings), she swaps them out. But... is it plausible she would have scoped out the job and planned having the fakes? Yes.
Of course the makers of the show might have chosen to make the show more a procedural about how Letty goes about committing crimes. Then they might have on this example shown how it was that she had the fakes with her. (Because again it is not IMPLAUSIBLE, meaning under a reasonable scenario, that she could have had the rings to swap.) But that's not really what the show is about. We see her crimes not as a how to, but as examples of what is going on in her life, the pull of their payoffs versus the aim of achieving "good behavior".
In short I suggest that these elements are not really plot holes, and that there is not here a level of implausibility that in effect makes the show silly and not worth watching.
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