I agree with the scenarios you’ve presented. However, there remains a big problem, totally unrelated to the myopic computer vision: Agree-bots. Last summer a new user agreed to every single species that needed an agree to reach Research Grade - over 100,000 in less than two months. Maybe 1000-2000 were moths. This individual knew nothing about the moths he was agreeing to, including some very tricky ones that most of us “power-users” didn’t have the knowledge (guts) to agree…most of the agreements were incorrect but are now Research Grade. A professional actually wrote to staff to have those egregious supporting IDs removed (not a single one was leading or improving); my understanding is that he was told by staff, in effect, too bad, so sad. The professional no longer is involved with iNat. So another good IDer gone. Not one of the regular IDers have the time to repair that many bad Research Grade obs.
There should be a mechanism to reverse egregious agree-bot supporting IDs, or as @sbushes predicts: