Niantic shot themselves in the foot and basically took away the last remaining fun things about the game

Tracking hasn't worked for about three weeks, so a lot of people turned to third party sites so they could, you know, still play the game. Well Niantic wasn't happy about that, so instead of fixing their tracking system so that people could enjoy the game the way it was meant to be played, they removed tracking altogether. This made the third party sites obsolete (they also probably threw some cease and desists around) and makes tracking around pokemon all but completely impossible. The only indicator of being closer to a pokemon is that it will move up on the "nearby" list, but that list is shit at updating and pokemon have really low despawn times.

And of course, not content with just that, they've also decreased the total area in which you can detect pokemon by over 50%, making "wandering around aimlessly with a sorta kinda general idea of a pokemon maybe being close" even more difficult because you've gotta be so much closer. This also fucks with lures, because now you can't just sit down at a pokestop and enjoy chatting with your friends while a lure is up, because the pokemon that spawn at the lure might not even register until you're running around in circles.

On top of this, they've also removed XP rewards for nice/great/excellent throws, because that was just too much actual gameplay to have in a game, and it's likely that they've made pokemon even HARDER to catch as your level increases. People have been saying that 100cp pidgeys will bust out of three great balls and then run off.

So pokemon go was never a very good pokemon game, but now it's not a good scavenger hunt game either. There's no point to it. It's completely unplayable.

Ingress players tried to warn us about this

It is completely unplayable, though. I mean, it stills functions, but there's nothing about it that really "plays" anymore. You can't hunt pokemon, gyms are pointless and full of spoofers, you can't train your pokemon, there's nothing to do besides leave it on while you're off for a walk and hope that something pops up on your radar.

And if you live in a rural area, fucking forget about it. It's shit enough in the suburbs, but in rural areas it's pretty much impossible to find anything but rats and pigeons.