Heh, quite. Although it had been like this for a while.
The permission to control whether or not reports about conversation messages were visible or not was based on whether or not a moderator was able to give warnings or not.
We changed it to the "Bypass user privacy" permission in 2.2.8.
If this is problematic I'll be happy to reconsider, but for now that's the permission which controls visibility of conversation message reports.
Actually, this is problematic:
For legal reasons we can't give our moderators (who are not employees of our company but volunteers and as such have not been given a data protection training "Datenschutzunterweisung") the permission to bypass user privacy as this would allow them access to personal data in user profiles to which they otherwise would not have access.
If this does now mean that they won't be able to see & handle reported conversation messages, those would have to be handled by our employees which might increase their workload.
Please reconsider this, maybe a distinct permission would be the best approach.