The first one which is highlighted in the last screenshot is the actual Volume Group for the OS installation. It actually has a lot more hidden APFS volumes within it (Recovery, Preboot, VM, the latter is Virtual Memory aka Swap).
The ghosted out "Macintosh HD" volume is the system volume contain the macOS system files.
Next is the "Macintosh HD snapshot" volume which contains the staging area for macOS updates so it also contains a copy of the macOS system files (used to be called "Update"), however, these days I think the system toggles between those two volumes, but not certain since I haven't really examined the behavior that closely.
The last APFS volume is the "Data" volume, sometimes shown as "Macintosh HD - Data" on older versions of macOS which contains the home user folders where your important data files are stored. Technically your macOS core system configuration files & log files are stored on a hidden area of the "Data" volume as well.
The "Container disk1" is like the old time partitions, but as you can see it is more than just a simple partition in macOS. As you can see in the Disk Utility....the APFS volumes within that single Container all share the same storage pool as evidenced by each one having the same amount of Free space listed.
Glad it all worked out for you. Thanks for the update.
Edit: Here are some Apple articles regarding the new drive layout utilized by macOS 10.15+. I thought I had already provided the links:
About the read-only system volume in macOS Catalina or later - Apple Support
Signed system volume security in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS - Apple Support
What is a signed system volume? - Apple Support