Thanks for suggesting this, it’s been interesting learning more about how peeople interact with iNat, especially from your comments in: Why opt out of Community ID
Could using the Scientific Name observation field address some of these concerns? Its been available for nearly a decade and would at least allow some searchability and immutability from taxon splits and disagreements, no?
Otherwise, you might be running into an issue similar to using Excel vs. rolling out something custom in R, where iNat is like Excel, where it’s used by most people to do things with data, but where it’s not always the perfect but gets the job done and R would probably do it better and faster, but it’s hard to convince people to switch.