if we were to redo curation, we should probably also find more people who can be curators for certain locked groups, to help out with that load. If there were a way to vet or regulate it, that would work, but i get why they lock changes when 100s of people can do it.
I myself am not a taxonomist, when i started out i did some taxonomy work because it was 2011 and literally less than 5000 accounts existed, but now i am way outclassed in the taxonomy department. I’m more a curator to try to help resolve other issues when i can. And to clean up common names, etc, but even that i haven’t done in a long time.