Just a thought. I know quite a lot about birds. It took me many years to have a good feeling for about ALL birds in the world: show me a picture of a bird anywhere in the world, and I can ID about 95% of species, even close to 99% if I know in what location the picture was taken.
But show me a picture of a mushroom, a moth, a beetle or a fly close to home, and I am quite lost! Thanks to my observation ID app, I get in most cases at least a direction of what species is most likely, and if I have a clear picture, the app can sometimes ID it with 100% certainty (which ofcourse is not 100% correct all the time).
Anyways, I am starting to notice (and input) many more species groups now than before, when I entered birds, birds, birds and the occasional mammal, snake or other reptile. So I feel it's a good development. It not only gets more people into birding, it also gets people who don't know about certain species groups more interested in those groups. You cannot be a specialist in all species groups all over the world, so it really helps to get more knowledge even for the more 'advanced' naturalists.
You can be nostalgic about the good old days where you went out in nature with a backpack full of field guides, an old porro binocular and no online world to share all the beauty except for your notebook and maybe some companions, but I feel there isn't too much of a good reason to look down on technological advancements that enables us to know more about the natural world. Ofcourse you see an increase of badly ID'd species on the internet because people rely on apps too much, but if the app wouldn't be there, many of those people wouldn't show interest as a start, and thus not share anything at all.