I see, I was confused because a friend does have edit permissions (on that specific entry and a random other one we tested) and we didn't consider their status as a group leader of an active group to matter, thank you for your time.
Greetings, I don't typically do contributions on mangadex, but today I found a simple addition I could do (adding anilist to Kowloon-jou de Mou Ichido). I couldn't find the edit button and upon further digging it seems I do not have edit permissions, which I'm guessing stems from a rejected...