> I'm not sure I buy into the sensationalism behind this story
It does seem odd there is an entire article about a single mislabeled-and-then-caught object in a large database that probably has many mislabeled objects that have never been caught.
The position of the object is well documented [1] [2]. It surprises me that there are not some very basic checks done on new objects against other databases.
All that said, I do feel for astronomers, the crazy tempo of rocket launches and satellites makes their job a lot harder and its only going to get harder still but maybe offset by Super Heavy enabling larger and cheaper space telescopes.