Sounds exciting. I know you’ve put a ton of work into it.
I’m wondering if another advantage of having iNat build and maintain the guides framework is that it would make it easier legally speaking to share observation photos directly from iNat on the guides. My understanding is that licensing issues (cc-by-nc) actually limited the photos you could pull in on your website. That’s another consideration for building a guide that can be responsive to knew information and get the most of interacting with iNat.