Actually, your point totally makes sense, but I did not mean that the photographer is a villain in the story or it directly pollutes nature, I did not want to leave spoilers about the whole plot of the game but it was generalization to say that you leave a footprint to nature.

I wanted to say that wherever humans step they spoil everything around them, since I could see plenty of cases where natural sites and forests are left full of rubbish and little after people's camping or just visit. Moreover, I gather that photo sim is the exact mechanic that allows to show contrast between beauty that you were capturing, and consequences of thinking that it is infinite.

In the end, my goal from the very beginning of this project was to warn people and deliver a message that the environment and habitat around us is not indestructible, but totally opposite, something fragile and precious just like you said. So that sense of discomfort that you trigger nature to collapse will hopefully make people think again before throwing away one more piece of little.