BEags,
I wonder if it has more to do with TIME between main gear trampling the cable and the hook trying to catch it. Your vids show the very low approach speeds of the F-7U and the F-4D. So even with a relatively short gear-to-hook-shoe distance, the time is obviously significantly greater.
It also looks like the hooks hang very low on those two types - probably isn't room to put a longer hook on F35C. Some of the traps in those vids may even have been with the jet still airborne, so gear hadn't trampled the wire.
Just a couple of theories. Someone here will probably know better.
Courtney