The Kunena team has announce the arrival of Kunena 6.2.6 [K 6.2.6] which is now available for download as a native Joomla extension for J! 4.4.x/5.0.x. This version addresses most of the issues that were discovered in K 6.1 / K 6.2 and issues discovered during the last development stages of K 6.2
I think group permissions set explicitly should have precedence over implied moderator privileges. On busy boards I can see the need for areas that are for admins only that even global mods cannot access.
