It’s precisely because you have “No, it’s as good as it can be” because “Community Taxon matches Observation Taxon” which is a result of a change in this thread: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/research-grade-with-only-one-id-at-that-rank/3270 . Staff made a change with how basically the whole research grade and needs ID format works and this is an unintended consequence, and I would recommend that any additional concerns be brought up there. I put in my grievances there and offered a solution because I’m not a very big fan of this change because of this particular oversight, it’s happening with a lot of observations across the site since the change was implemented about 8 days ago.
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