@cmcheatle No, I’m quite sure that “open” statuses at one geographic level have never overridden “obscured” statuses at any other level. Back when we were first starting to go through the Canada statuses, I had to remove global obscuring statuses off some species (off the top of my head this includes Imperial Moth) in order that they would be open in the relevant province.
Long-tailed Duck has been newly set to obscured - not sure why. Thread here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/common-birds-being-newly-set-to-obscured-recently/9753