[afiori]

I played pokemon go seriously for a few years (both at the beginning and recently) and honestly spoofers are an issue only because imho Niantic is incompetent and doesn't care.[1]

not to say how it you are anywhere not in a medium size city you need either spoofers or endless grind to unlock significant parts of the game

[1] to be fair I left before the pandemic, so I cannot comment on how they handled that

[duxup]

I think spoofing early on was an issue because it was so easy.

It really stopped being a large scale issue after Android started making it harder to spoof.