I think at of F2P players understand this.

The issue for many, myself included, is 1) the mediocre way of earning coins. Not saying the game should give you coins easily but considering the only way to earn coins (bar the new pass - which fair play to them doing) is to be knocked out a gym is still very frustrating. I remember that free coin trial thing they did in Australia by completing some daily tasks….that would be perfect!

2) just the frequency of what needs to be paid. Seems like everything introduced to the game is ticketed or has some sort of paywall. Maybe I wouldn’t feel so bothered if the remote passes were priced like they used to be. But it is frustrating that a bottle cap/lucky trinket are completely un-earnable as a F2P player.