Camera zoom is definitely annoying, there's no way to control how zoomed in it is.
And yes, it often takes as much as a minute to identify a species, because you have to keep adjusting zoom and angle and trying to catch every important feature.
That said, once you are used to it, it becomes less noticeable and just feels like part of the game.
I tried this app for a while, and there's definitely some rough edges. My partner's phone was much quicker in recognizing plants and flowers, so after a while I gave up and we just used her phone instead.
And then there's the issue of many plants being slightly mis-identified, many really common flowers being incorrectly identified. I don't really know how people get remotely close to wild animals to identify them, I had no luck with animal life with this and after a while I started mistrusting its results and cross referencing with google lens anyway.
And yes, it often takes as much as a minute to identify a species, because you have to keep adjusting zoom and angle and trying to catch every important feature.
That said, once you are used to it, it becomes less noticeable and just feels like part of the game.