I might be losing track of the topic a bit.
I assumed that @david99 was referring to cropping for cases like a blue sky and tiny bird, where without cropping to just the subject, it looks like a grain of sand on a blue background a la “please identify this species from these 3 dark pixels”.
What’s being discussed recently is related to topics:
So the question now is whether to crop photos to 2048x2048 or smaller so that details aren’t lost when uploaded to iNat, yes?