They used the same type of border over the first example, of course it doesn’t work. It’s “our genius design vs average nonexistent nonsense” type of move. Make

They used the same type of border over the first example, of course it doesn’t work. It’s “our genius design vs average nonexistent nonsense” type of move. Make table/list grid less pronounced, make the selection hint more saturated than a field bg, and now it looks better than #2. Their selection looks like a hover hint in both cases as if they were afraid to tell a user that a row may have a selection on it.