If the federal doesn't clear, the state processing is killed off no matter what the reason is for the federal.

I'm glad you have had more luck than me as far as rejections.  There were some bugs early on the caused some issues with my early MN returns.  I've had a couple of those returns like yours that people jumped into the Marketplace and didn't think the 1095A was important for taxes.  I have also had three returns bounced because of IP PIN issues.  Plus my token Iowa return got kicked back because ProSeries put them in limbo.  And of course there is always one return that bounces because the other parent wasn't supposed to claim a kid, but they did anyway.  And I'm sure I had at least a couple of others bounce for miscellaneous reasons.