if custom field doesn’t exist, use post thumbnail instead, as image background

In your modified code (inside your elseif) you have $thumb = the_post_thumbnail( 'medium' );.
the_post_thumbnail function is not returning a URL, but the entire image.

When you just need to output the source of the image, you should use the_post_thumbnail_url.

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