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1) I only had time to watch once but it looks like your thoughts and description is accurate.
2) The FED rule is different from the OBR (pro) rule, the play is legal in OBR because the catcher was in the process of receiving the ball when the runner veered from his path so in an OBR based game obstruction wouldn't even be a thought. Much closer to possibly having obstruction in FED, in FED the catcher has to leave part of the plate open, it doesn't have to be the part the runner wants, without looking again if the catcher was far enough in front of the plate to leave the back (foul side towards the 3b dugout) of the plate available I have nothing, with the whole plate blocked it is possible to have obstruction.
3) As my answers to 1 and 2 show, you are not off base at all, just unfamiliar with the OBR rulebook.
Jasper
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