The thing is, it's up to the official classification officer to decide on how far is too far for classification down and this administration loves to short man everything so likely they decided it wasn't an issue, but it is, and someone should be blamed in my opinion since that is that official's job.
You can go around legally too just ask what is and isn't considered classified by derivative.
Most OCAs are 2-3 stars and are marginally aware of what they are signing
Rescinding or otherwise ignoring OCAs and caveats as an appointee, NSC officers or especially cabinet level person (don’t get me started on elected officials who have zero respect for classified information ntk) is basically an embedded privilege of rank
You can go around legally too just ask what is and isn't considered classified by derivative.