I’m glad to see somebody else brought this up. I’ve been doing a lot of identifications lately, and having to clear the taxon for every observation is absolutely nuts. Please, just default to clearing the taxon, as 65% of people apparently do manually. Then if you want to get fancy you can make it configurable to satisfy the rest of the people.
Does this need to be posted as a bug / feature request? Is there a reason not to do that right now?