Lumping subspecies together

[rubbertoes]

So rat snakes were grouped into 3 species a few years ago, western, central, and eastern. a similar thing was recently done with watersnakes, particularly nerodia erythrogaster. all the different subspecies of erythrogaster are now one species. do you guys agree or disagree with it? i personally disagree just because i prefer more individuality, although i have read several research papers and i undersand why they did it.