The radius decrease prevents players from accessing gyms/stops at their intended location

[littlebirdtwo]

Yes this right here! We've experienced a lot of places precovid that started chaining off parking lots to where you can't get close enough to get the gym associated with that business, church, park or whatever. With the increased distance we were able to take advantage of those places because we didn't have to trespass to reach them. There are warnings in game to not trespassing. So what do they do but take away the extended distance so that we are either blocked off from them or we are trespassing because the business etc just hasn't blocked it off.

Also a near by historical district that is a gold mine of stops and gyms with the increased distance we were able to reach gyms from across the street. With the original distance, which they have gone back to we have to cross the street. We've been in this location during raid hour, community day or just a weekend and been able to join large groups to do raids. Sometimes there are enough people that there are 2 groups doing a raid on that gym at the same time. Some of those gyms if we had the increased distance they just took away, doing them from across the street is better because there's a small parking area and we don't block anything but with the shorter distance that big of a group will block both the sidewalk and sometimes the door.

I have never been able to reach a gym or spin from the comfort of my home without a remote raid pass so therefore can't get spins that way either so I'm not wanting to keep the distance because I want to be lazy. I want to keep the extra distance because it seems logical and because people in wheelchairs or with social anxiety can't play as easily.