I don’t think your link is related to the giraffe problem. G. camelopardalis has been set to open in southern Africa since last year and G. camelopardalis giraffa has been set to open globally since 2018.
There are two problems here: one I mentioned above, which is that the region southern Africa can’t currently override global statuses even though it seems like it was supposed to be able to do that. The other is that finer taxa automatically inherit status/geoprivacy from coarser taxa even if they have their own status set.
So G. c. giraffa looks like this currently:
The first status is one set on the subspecies G. c. giraffa and should probably get priority (but doesn’t). That is, there is no observation that uses the open geoprivacy of G. c. giraffa.
The other two VU statuses are both inherited from C. camelopardalis. The global one is currently not letting the southern Africa one through, but (as an example), if it were set to open in South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, etc., those would override the global status because country-level statuses can override global statuses.
The end result is that even if all IDs on an obs are for G. c. giraffa and it’s in southern Africa, it’s still being obscured.