Those captures when combined show both directions but they are for different TCP connections (source port numbers do not match) so the ability to determine what is wrong is limited. I need to see a single capture that has all the packets in both directions for a single connection. So I'll ask again: how are you taking this capture?
It looks like the SYN-ACK is reaching the gateway but being dropped for some reason; I don't see anything wrong with the SYN-ACK itself so it must be a stateful inspection thing that is dropping it. Search your logs for "out of state" drops or run fw ctl zdebug drop.
If this is a high volume transaction without sufficiently diverse source ports, it is possible the occasional failures could be due to source port reuse, see here: sk24960: "Smart Connection Reuse" feature modifies some SYN packets
I'm not willing to speculate further without a full capture of both directions for the same connection. Is this traffic subject to NAT?
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