Of course, and there’s nothing wrong with a user wanting to focus on annotation. We certainly need more enthusiastic annotators.
But I think one reason some of us are a bit puzzled is that annotation isn’t necessarily the most obvious entry point for a new user. It’s not a feature that most of us discover in our first forays through iNaturalist, but only after we have been using the site for some time. So joining iNat exclusively for the purpose of annotation suggests some previous experience with the website.
Agreed.
To be clear, I’m not making any accusations here, just trying to understand. It is helpful for all sorts of reasons to have a sense of where a user is coming from, what their familiarity with the website is, what their goals are in initiating such a project, and so forth.