I don’t think it’s reasonable to ask for observers to all be identifiers - probably the vast majority of users are not scientists or even hardcore enthusiasts of any particular group, enough to be able to or want to try IDing things, and that’s totally fine. Identifiers agreeing with IDs should have particular knowledge in that subject area, and there will always be a comparatively tiny ratio to identifiers to solely-observers, which ensures data quality. But as I saw discussed in this other forum topic (https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/defending-inaturalist-on-social-media/53386/26) much of it comes down to experts for a particular taxon being on iNat in the first place. Some groups, like bees, a lot of us are, whereas perhaps for leps, more are elsewhere and may take convincing to use this platform.
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