if you’re talking about this: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/all-pins-red-in-your-observations-page/11171, then yes, i suppose if the big pin and little pin matched in color, they would look more like one thing. that said, you might want to chime in on that other topic to check on the status of it. one of the last posts there says an issue would be logged to address the observation page map, but i don’t see anything in Github, either at https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues or https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalistapi/issues.
yes. that’s what it looks like to me.
that may be a question for the staff, and they’ll probably ask for a feature request to gauge interest from other community members first…