Not at all - when you understand what the tile is for and what the different passage settings mean.
Every tile, on every layer, has a tile ID. Even if you don't place a tile there. By default (if there is no tile), the tile ID is 0. That happens to be the top left B tile. This is the 'erase' tile and is the only one that should be used if you want to get rid of tiles on the upper layer.
Because you had it set to O, that means every single tile on the map, where you hadn't placed a tile image, has a passage setting of O, which means you can walk through almost everything. The star passage setting tells it to ignore that tile and look at the layer below to get the passage.