Hi mcliquid,
I mentioned that in other comment, but worth to say here as well that I addressed issue with this type of edits in my team. Mapper worked in POL roads challenge, while jumped to CAN to fix small error in and upload all edits in big change set, as above. We retrained our team to be careful for limited change sets reflecting logical edits grouped and we will improve for the future. Thank you once again, feel free to contact us and me directly, if you see anything, we can do better for OSM. More than happy to learn from you, regards! 
Domi