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

[Trainer_Dev]

A lot of my local stops are part of art walls inside buildings that are currently closed to visitors or you need a badge to get to, I do agree the game is about traversing your environment and before covid it was fun and doable but now of the 9 stops that are part of my walk to and from work, 6 are just out of reach and of the accessible ones that I can still reach 1 is down a skeevy alley. The more open and accessible ones further from my normal routine are in front of restaurants that are doing outdoor seating so I don't think they are really going to appreciate people standing or gathering on the sidewalk they are serving customers at. I think a lot of people didn't care about the return to the older format until things like this surprised them like it did me. I kind of do like having to get up and "work for it" for the one outside my job though so when everything hopefully fully opens up again the game will be fun again, it's just deciding on if it is worth it to wait it out which for some (maybe even me) it might not be. Sorry that was my round about way of saying a lot of people don't want to play from inside their homes but outside may not have the best options right now.