the issue isn’t age, or level of experience, or that we are all learners. The issue is specifically people being assigned to use the site under ‘duress’ (there are lots of threads about this in the old message board). Inaturalist should be a place where amateurs and experts all want to be. People assigned to use the site are a whole other story. In my experience nearly all the users who don’t put in the time ore ffort to use the site properly are ‘duress’ users or similar ‘contest’ users. To be honest i think it should just be a banned use of inaturalist but… that isn’t going to happen.
Anyway there’s a new little discussion here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/duress-and-contest-users-discussion-thread/422/2