Hi folks, I’m going to close this topic as it’s essentially the duplicate of an existing feature request discussion, where you can see others have already proposed many of the suggestions also raised here.
Feel free to vote for and continue the discussion there: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/change-wording-used-by-the-system-when-downgrading-an-observation-to-an-higher-level-taxa/3862/
It’s a long topic so one thing you can try is clicking the “Show top replies” button at the bottom of the first post to help summarize it.
(Also generally if you have a suggestion for a change to how iNat works in any way, you can use the search feature to see if that change has already been proposed and submit a new topic to Feature Requests if it hasn’t been.)