@kyles_hikes Thanks for the great question, and welcome to the forum! In addition to the excellent responses so far, I’ll suggest a couple of long and winding reads on other discussion threads, if you want to catch up on the various pros and cons of obscuration that the community has identified:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/geoprivacy-obscuring-and-auto-obscure-discussion/457
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/updates-to-conservation-statuses-in-progress-in-canada/608