Molanic, you are speaking for a lot of people when you say that. However, the benefits are real. When I wrote to a teacher asking her to give her students a list of nearby wild places, she wrote back that she had done so, but some students did not have good transportation.
She also wrote:
At the beginning of this class many cannot list even 3 native California flowers (poppies excepted). iNaturalist has been a wonderful way to bring these phone addicted, city-raised kids into nature.
The reason I could reach out to this teacher was because she had created projects for her students’ obs. See https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/arth193a-01-earth-life-art-spring-2019