I have lots of thoughts on this topic (I actually kind of address it in my iNat profile!) but I wanted to tag onto this comment by you.
I live a few blocks from a lake (about 50 acres in size) in the land of lakes (Minnesota) and the city of lake (Minneapolis). But this lake has a problem. First, storm sewers from 920 acres of South Minneapolis empties without filtration directly into Lake Hiawatha. Last fall, the amount of trash removed from the lake by volunteers had reached 8,960 pounds. Second, the lakeshore on the east is public park but the land on the west is a public golf course. Having started life as a marsh, the golf course is struggling to stay dry and managing that water impacts the lake and plans going forward for management greatly impacts the lake.
I visit this lake often and had already been making a lot of observations there. When I realized the most vocal advocate for a healthy status of Lake Hiawatha had joined iNaturalist, I connected with him. After that, I made it a point to try to document as much life as possible there so we could get some good data on the wild life of the park. Currently, Friends of Lake Hiawatha are fighting for the life of the lake (seriously… the golf advocates presented a plan to drain the lake in some effort to keep the golf course functioning at its current size). In contacts with Park Board members and the public at large, we* were able to provide some nice data on species. 250 species of animals have been found in the park. and I’ve personally documented 98 species of plants and 12 species of fungi. (people mostly want to know what the animals are!).
My point (and I always take awhile to get to it…) is, documenting everything can serve some pretty useful functions when it comes to educating people and advocating for nature. Maybe most of us don’t have that situation facing us on a daily basis. But, as I say in my profile: for something to be remarkable it only has to be remarked upon. To make note of. The more we find the remarkable in nature - even in the most common and mundane - the more likely we are to want to preserve it. And the more we act as a model for others - friends, relatives, strangers we meet in the city park - about stopping and taking a look at stuff never noticed or thought about before.
*we - I don’t want to take credit for the advocacy of Friends of Lake Hiawatha and its founder who is tireless in his work. ‘We’, in this case, merely refers to all the community members who advocate for LH.