Or if they do matter – in terms of helping the taxon curators with “background” work for needed taxon changes – then that should be made much clearer to the curator community, maybe with a specific list of helpful tasks for “locked” taxa in the Ways to Help Out wiki topic.
Counting myself among those curators - I think I’ve gotten that impression from some of the message wording associated with actions on those taxa. So yes, whatever we can do to make it more apparent what kinds of help other curators can contribute to locked taxa would be a win-win.