What common things make weaker players weaker in your experience?
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Leaving aside the lack of precision due to bad form, which can happen at any level, the question should be if the player understands what's happening and if he's capable of playing accordingly, thus establishing the sources and not the consequences.
On the way around, trying to categorize the mistakes according to the current competitive strength of a player can be deceptive. For instance, a number of players work on pattern recognition on some systems and become pretty good at them, but when taken from familiar waters they don't know what to do. Others are talented but lack the time or disposition to work hard. Then the same sort of "mistakes" can happen at different levels and for very different reasons.
Or they don't want to spend a lot of time on chess. Many people want to earn their income in some other ways (only the best of the best chess players on the planet can live from chess) and they would rather spend their free time doing things other than playing chess. Magnus Carlsen and all the other top GMs spent enormous amount of time studying and practicing chess because they like chess that much. Even if I was talented for chess, which I am not, I would rather spend that time with friends, people etc. then spend enormous amount of time studying chess. Also, a lot of us started playing chess as adults, I started playing chess when I was 20 years old. You can't become nearly good enough to earn a living by playing chess if you start playing it at 20 years of age, we are all just recreational players. With other sports, like basketball, even boxing, you can start as an adolescent or a young adult and find success in it, but that's not the case with chess. The train has left the station for us a looong time ago.