When I go for an inspection and it fails, I go pick it up with the list of things it failed for. Several things on your list are things it simply cannot fail for, so several of these are probably recommended maintenance items, which you can choose to ignore their recommendations. The inspection however is a specific list of things that must be inspected, the list is public and enshrined in law and you can check a lot of it yourself. Stuff like tire tread, lights, horn, parking brake you can check yourself. Beyond that it’s mostly brake pads having enough meat left, no significant play in suspension joints and bushings.

As an example, I am pretty certain a leaking shock does not fail, but a shock that has failed to the point of not properly damping bouncing can. Things to absolutely replace if a shop says so: ball joints. These may be part of a larger part like a control arm. When ball joints let go, bad things happen, where a shock fails slowly and not suddenly.