Svante Paabo, who led the group that sequenced the Neanderthal genome and discovered we interbred with them, had to decide whether to give a species- or local name to the Denisovans. The argument that carried the day was that “species” is such an ill-defined biological concept that it’s a sterile intellectual exercise arguing over it; and if they’d gone with, say,
Homo altaiensis rather than Denisovans, it would’ve been extremely hard to take it back (“Neanderthal Man,” 2014, Ch. 23).
Considering Paabo secured funding from the German government for a brand-new research institute in ancient human DNA and related subjects, including the right to decide what city to build the institute in and hiring authority over the initial staff, and given that he had an advance agreement with Science to publish the Neanderthal genome, I think some of these discoverers aren’t that exercised by whether they make it onto the cover of National Geographic.