There’s quite few threads and feature requests about how ‘unknowns’ should be handled. Here’s a selection that is far too long to read!!! Personally I tend to advise people not to ID unknowns that have only just been uploaded in order not to tread on the toes of people such as yourself, but people do their best in their own way :)
Coordinating Identification of Unknowns - General - iNaturalist Community Forum
Amount of “Unknown” records is decreasing - General - iNaturalist Community Forum
Identifying taxa just to remove them from “unknown” - General - iNaturalist Community Forum
Hide recently uploaded “unknowns” for 1-2 hours - Feature Requests - iNaturalist Community Forum