Originally Posted by
NotHamSarnie
Yes, I think this is a recent change and it does look cleaner. If you bring up the seat maps you get the duplicate showings with "you can't select a seat" under the waitlisted J.
I had to look again, but this is also how a newly booked flight for LAX-HND-MSP-LAX shows. One over-water segment cleared on booking; the other two are waitlist. The two waitlist segments show two sets of seatmaps.
Previously, at least in late August, the waitlisted flights themselves were shown twice. The new way is looks cleaner and probably triggers fewer calls to Delta from people thinking it's an error.