Never played Pokémon Go. Ironically tried out Ingress for about a week as a novelty. Probably contributing to this nightmare anyway by improving OpenStreetMap.

I will never, having seen the gameplay loop, understand Pokémon Go; I do basically the same thing while surveying, but the key difference is what I’m focused on. My hobby is also a thankless, never-ending grind with threadbare social interaction where everything I do is tracked, but everyone gets the data, and I get to pay attention to real, interesting things instead of what the dopamine slot machine says I get to have today.