I am under the impression that the subject of this here thread is not whether professional taxonomists should be replaced by iNaturalist voters…
…but rather if taxonomic changes (usually mirrored by iNaturalist from external ‘expert’ sources such as published papers, or third-party taxo databases) should be better advertised and open to more discussion (i.e. allowing more time and more participants). Especially prior to committing “heavy” changes that are potentially disruptive (to identifiers’ workflow) or even destructive (merge-split operations with no way back, pushing thousands of obs back to genus / out of RG…).
– edit: for the sake of completeness, another related Feature Request (enforce delay before taxon swaps): https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/implement-automatic-delay-for-proposed-taxon-swaps/38701/15