I don’t want to speak for everyone on the team, but what was written came from consultation with some of them. I think people should have the ability to be “forgotten” online, meaning they should be able to remove, at the very least, any public trace of theirs from a website, whether or not there’s a law requiring one to do that. And that would include things like IDs made on iNat. But as this isn’t really up for discussion, it’s best to move on with other suggestions/critiques.
I suppose the scope of this is also important and I don’t think content deletion is a big enough of a problem to make this a huge issue. I’ll try and crunch some numbers to see how many observations have been affected but my suspicion is that it’s relatively small. I think a better use of time and resources would be to understand why people leave and which improvements can be made to reduce such occurrences. But that is a different topic of discussion, don’t want to derail this one so soon. ;-)