I think people have been confused by a semantics mixup on random encounters. SwSh doesn't have random encounters. The Pokemon you encounter may be random, but that isn't a random encounter, the encounter itself is what needs to be random. By it being marked by an "!" and then being locked to the location that "!" occured, these encounters are fundamentally not random, but set and defined, and can be ignored and avoided. Such a thing is simply not Pokemon. Hopefully this is fixed in the future, so we have overworld spawns and traditional legitimately random encounters. That is all.