Overlapped panels with todays materials could easily last outlast other parts of the car and would be fine on a general transportation or non collector cars.
If I'm looking at a car and see a bunch of obvious patches under the car I see it as a red flag that someone took shortcuts on the resto. It's just unnecessary, If your doing the work yourself the floor is a great place to do butt welds on heavier gauge metal, even if its not perfect its not as obvious as a raised patch. The extra time put in to do an undetectable repair is well worth not having to explain the patches and why they were repaired that way.
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"Honestly the car will only be there for a few weeks, OK maybe a month at the most"
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