What was the reader's intent in pulling that clarifier?
This is going to be a little long. Bear with me, please
I agree with a lot of what people have said about clarifiers...but as people *do* lay them down, it's best to know how to read them so as to offer advice on them. Ultimately, what really matters here is (1) How readers read clarifiers, and (2) their intent in pulling them. So, going with #1 there...What a lot of readers tend to do is see clarifiers as saying "tell me more..." which means they see card + clarifier as part 1 and part 2 of a sentence. Like "Death + Ace/Cups" means "End of love and new love on the way."
Now, it's their reading and they can call 'em as they see 'em. However, if they're asking for help with this card + clarifier, then you (and all of us) get a say as well. And, moving onto point #2 there, we may well see this as cheating
As the reader not liking the original card or hoping the card doesn't mean what they think it means. "Please give me a better message...I don't like this one!" What really gives this away is if they ignore the original card. So Death clarifiers by Ace/Cups becomes "Ace/Cups was the answer! New love free and clear!"
I always remind those who ask about cards + clarifiers that they can't ignore the original card. The clarifier, however they read it, doesn't erase that other card.
So, how *should* a clarifier be read that is not "cheating"? Technically a clarifier should be the reader saying to the cards, "I don't understand what you said, can you say that differently so I can better understand...." So a clarifier should be the *same* message as the original card, just said differently. So Death clarified by the Ace/Cups offers the same message. Which is probably "You're going to need to start over again. Whatever has been going on, is done and not continuing." The Ace/Cups said this nicer, but it still says that.
Which is all to say: The way you decide how to give feedback on their card + clarifier is by figuring out why they put down the clarifier, and why they decided to read it as they did. If you feel they did it to "cheat" their way out of the answer, then it may be useful to point out how the clarifier says the same as the original card, rather than ignoring it. If you feel they "played fair" and just needed the message "re-said" differently to understand, then you may ignore the clarifier and just focus on the original card.