Taxon swap renders RG obs Casual if Opt Out of Community ID engaged

Perhaps this has been acknowledged elsewhere but thought to bring it up as I have never encountered it before. For several dozen entries of a moth species recently the subject of a taxon swap a month ago, I only just noticed that all those of research grade (42) were rendered casual.

One example:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/41520751

Pondering it a moment, I thought to opt in community ID for the specific entry, and RG was restored. So, with a fix at hand, this is nothing more than a nuisance I suppose but as numerous other taxon swaps have not caused this to happen, I thought to bring it up.

I suspect I now must search through any number of recent taxon swaps to ascertain whether there is a similar problem. Can one search on ā€œCasual Gradeā€ observations?

I suspect this has been fixed as a similar taxon swap today affecting 32 of my observations caused no such change. Ex:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/42553249

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&quality_grade=casual&user_id=vicfazio3&verifiable=any

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https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/casual-due-to-taxon-change-when-opting-out-of-community-id/1882/13

Thanks Thomas.

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And thank you for that link.