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Eric BrehmIf by "obvious," you mean "definitely detracting from eye appeal," I would say the answer to all three questions should be "no," even for PSA 9.
There is a regular poster here (I forgot who) who has suggested having two separate grade components to rate (1) the original quality of a card (i.e. at time of manufacture, including centering and print/image quality) and (2) its degree of preservation (i.e. avoidance of wear to corners, edges, and surface due to handling). That would make some sense, in fact I think it would be particularly helpful to rate centering separately (especially since it can be objectively measured). But that would make grading more complicated of course. In any case we are stuck for now with a system that combines all defect types into a single numerical indicator.