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Fine - that's fair enough, there have been some questionable actions (or lack of actions) especially from the PR front, but these aren't things the average dev can influence and the lack of a PR head is absolutely nothing the devs can do anything about.

That said, however, the devs would still be affected by the feedback, they are almost certainly are working crazy stressful hours and the general backlash towards them is directed towards engineering.

My point being that we have no idea what it's like whatsoever inside Niantic, but you can be pretty sure their employees are working frantically right now, and the flak directed in their general direction is pretty unwarranted considering they've brought out a free video game that loads of people are enjoying.

The product might well have been released 6 months early, but isn't a more positive viewpoint that we should be grateful for having a version of Pokemon Go available early? 1 month ago, we didn't have pokemon go and our lives were essentially the same. Nothing is forcing us to play this game, it's bad, don't play it. If you have a problem with the management of the product then explicitly call out the management team but let's not forget that humans built and are building this product and are mostly following the instructions of their corporate overlords and take a moment to thank them for their hard work.