This is luckily not the decision of researchers which are happy to use data (and not possess the data), generated with time and heart by thousands of people, saving researchers time to do this on their own to have at least data for their projects.
It’s the decision of the data owner, and there are a lot of more reasons than “research is important”, for and against obscuration. Some of them you can read here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/why-obscure-observations/83999
When you know the species, their needs and behavior, then as well obscured data can deliver some information, too.