Front disk brake(s) sticking- where to start toubleshooting?

I am going with rusted up caliper. You say you replaced all that grocery list of stuff and the let it sit for a couple of years without bleeding.

Moisture has set up in the system and the calipers have probably paid the price.
x2 ALL of my problems with brakes in the 70's back in the day when I was driving them just a few years old were with the caliper pistons sticking the bores. I rebuilt quite a few of them, and when I was lees young and less poor, I just bought rebuilt calipers.