It’s set up that way to try to curb inappropriately Research Grade observations at the level of subspecies. It’s not an ideal solution, but they haven’t come up with a better way to do it. See the discussion at this feature request: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/leading-subspecies-ids-should-change-the-obs-taxon-like-leading-ids-of-other-ranks/139
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