This thread is getting confusing because there are several different topics under discussion. Might I suggest this thread be for discussion of “How should projects/places interact with obscured observations?”
Other questions like “What species should be obscured, and how should that be decided?” really deserve a separate treatment. There are existing threads related to this issue:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/change-process-to-update-obscuring-level-of-taxa/558/7
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/updates-to-conservation-statuses-in-progress-in-canada/608/21