>>47805558>don't get why people are defending Niantic Removing the reduced distance sucks but Niantic made it clear from the beginning that they only did that as temporary thing in the first place for COVID, lockdown restrictions have been being lifted so removing reversing it made since. Regardless, the half distance was a minor QOL change anyway compare to other things like having no walking requirement for battle league and introducing Remote passes (both QOL changes that Niantic kept)
And as I recall when Game Freak removed 29% of previous Pokémon from the main series, Twitter had no problem with Game Freak. they even made dontbringbacknationdex purely out of spite to attack then fans actually cared about all Pokémon, then spent the last 2 years gloating about how “dex filler” like half of the starters doesn’t deserve to exist and how any Pokémon fans that cares about the Pokémon deserved to be brutally murdered.
TLDR: Cry more distancecucks
