I perhaps should disclose that on at least one occasion I have expounded at considerable length about some of my frustrations connected with (among other things) experts spending their time adding additional IDs to RG observations of species that are generally ID’d correctly, in taxa where there are too few IDers.
So I am not unsympathetic to the concern voiced here, but I see it as less a case of the IDs themselves being problematic (they are not, in most cases, assuming they are made with knowledge), as it is about larger considerations of whether and how IDers coordinate their activities, the hurdles that iNat’s infrastructure poses to this, and whether one sees oneself as IDing only for one’s own personal ends or as part of a collective endeavor where the needs and desires of the larger community play a role in how one chooses to spend one’s time.
I think as an IDer it is worthwhile asking oneself some of these questions – but as the person getting notifications of such activities, any annoyance I might feel is ultimately my problem, not the fault of the IDer, so I try not to judge and try instead to assume that the IDer has good reasons for doing what they are doing.