Sorry the rule is bad and has always been. Too much of a penalty for a ref's judgement call. There should be 2 degrees of DPI, DPI being 15 yds and automatic 1st and intentional DPI with that being a spot foul with auto 1st.
If there were two different degrees of pass interference, I suspect that fans would always accept the refs judgement on which level of interference was warranted for (or against) their team. :scratch: