I can’t speak for the staff as far as the reasons for their priorities, but it is a small, non-profit team providing a free service. Personally I rarely look at the Place pages, instead I use the Explore page to see what observations are found in a place.
The code is open source if you’d like to look at ways to contribute. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/ways-to-help-out-on-inat-wiki/1983