No, it’s not the same at all, if I have 2 observation of a crow of the same time/place, and in each one in annotation I’ll add that there were e.g. 4 of them, how many crows will a system recognize? It will say 8 for sure were there. If I only uploaded one crow it would be right - 4 crows only. Or I would think it’s tricky and write 1 on one observation and 3 on the other, now it doesn’t make much sense, were they in different groups to be divided such way? And what if I wrote 2 on each one, were there 2 or 4 in the end?
New annotation is discussed here https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/new-annotation-evidence-of-presence/23945