I agree it’s easy to get confused, aided by the placement of the Research Grade badge on the display id. I can see why it’s that needed on a list of observations but when on an individual observation perhaps putting the badge on the community id would help reinforce the idea it is Research Grade only for the level agreed to by the community.
I’ve had to consider if such alternate placement would be better for the Discord bot, Dronefly, but after discussion, we decided that no, for consistency with iNaturalist on the web, the badge should remain on the display line for now.
I haven’t filed a feature request for this, but maybe should. Are a lot of people confused by this? Couldn’t we be doing this in a less confusing way?