Update for all:
This behavior is confirmed to be a bug with how triggers are setup with draft deployments in a new app:
When a new app is created using realm-cli push , it starts out in draft mode. Right now, we are creating some of the Trigger event elements before the app is actually deployed. Even though the app is not live, the Trigger-related events attempt to process anyway, which results in those events (and the Triggers associated with them) ending up in a failed state. After a few minutes, the events are retried and the Triggers become operational.