I can see how people reason that way… thanks for sharing another perspective! It’s been a few years since I called myself a beginner on iNaturalist ;-)
I realized I never explained exactly how to fix this… will update that.
With the web uploader, you can drag and drop the photos on top of each other so they go into the same observation. After creating one observation, dragging multiple photos onto that observation will combine those into that observation. You can also drag separate observations on top of each other to combine them into one.
With observations that have already been created, there’s fortunately is a guide on how to combine multiple observations into one.