I have posted some truly terrible bird photos that were IDed almost instantly (and correctly). One of the things I love about the iNat community is that there are people who can and do ID smudges, mangled bits of feather, a trodden-on bit of dung, etc. Sometimes I look for the worst photos of the organisms I know, just to see how bad a photo I can confidently ID.
I personally find this really impressive. My vision isn’t great, so I often see tiny organisms in my photos that I never noticed in the field. I find it inspiring to have an IDable community in one photo. In the park where I work we have almost 33K observations, but some species are documented only as ‘bycatch’ in a single photo where I was aiming at something else.
Sometimes, I take a photo of a bird from 100m away, and when I look at the photo later, notice it is holding a kind of seed or flower I’ve never seen before, and I really want to know what it is, so I tag @graysquirrel and often she can ID it in an instant.
None of this is done in mockery, and all of it is within the stated mission of iNat.