The reason why I’m so insistent on this change is because why aren’t species-like taxa are not deserving of a hybrid taxa. The example I used in my thread was the Gibraltar Buzzard, a hybrid “swarm” between Western Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo buteo) and the Atlas Long-legged Buzzard (Buteo rufinus critensis). These hybrids are common and “pure” individuals of either species is difficult to find in the Gibraltar regions. Outside of this small region in Spain and Mocorro, Common and Long-legged are quite rare and usually only occur when a Northern Long-legged (ssp rufinus) ventures too far north of its normal breeding range, thus hybridizing with Western and Steppe Buzzards (ssp. buteo and vulpinus).
Additionally, several taxonomists have advocated to the speciation of the Atlas Buzzard (Rodriguez 2013) but it was usually shut down due to the uncertainty of identification. But preliminary genetic evidence (Jowers 2019) has shown the Atlas Buzzard is in fact more closely related to the Common Buzzard than the Long-legged Buzzard. That means the Atlas Buzzard is either, (A) a full species or (B) a subspecies (Jowers specifically coined the term “allospecies”) of the Common Buzzard. That means the Gibraltar Buzzard is a very different “hybrid” than other Common x Long-legged hybrids.
Assuming in the future that we refer to option B for the Atlas Buzzard, that would make the Gibraltar Buzzard an intergrade population, even though we’ll coin it on iNat as Buteo buteo buteo x critensis, that doesn’t mean it’s not a valid taxon. Junco hymealis cismontanus or Cassiar Junco is now believed to be an intergrade swarm between Oregon and Slate-colored Juncos but we are now calling them Junco hyemalis hyemalis x oreganus, it’s J. h. cismontanus, a subspecies. Heck, what about hybrid speciation? The Audubon’s Warbler is in fact a hybrid “species” between Black-fronted Warbler (Setophaga nigrifrons) and the Myrtle Warbler (S. coronata), but we don’t call it Setophaga nigrifrons x coronata, it is Setophaga auduboni. Couple other examples include the Italian Sparrow (Passer italiae) which is a hybrid between House (Passer domesticus) and Spanish Sparrow (P. hispaniolensis). Or Hawaiian Duck (Anas wyvilliana) being a hybrid between the Mallard (A. platyrhynchos) and Laysan Duck (Anas laysanensis). Point being, just because it’s a hybrid doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be or avoided on iNat. Look at plants.