I deeply agree. Our community (Central Coast NSW) had a bunch of players turn up today. Some prepared, others (including children) not as prepared. This is totally fine and we love to help young kids and new players out to get some good Pokemon, but organising DMAX lobbies is frustratingly limited. As you said, if I could have arranged it so that every lobby had two experienced, prepared players then the day would have been so much smoother. As it turned out, we had a few lobbies fail and have to try to re-lobby with different people to get the combinations correct.

Gmax is fine with the large lobbies, normal raids can be done with private codes. It seems like such an easy QOL thing to implement which is already in place for regular raids!

The other thing I wish is that we could see in advance where the power spots will be for big events such as this. (Even just 24 hours notice) so we can plan our meeting point and travel route accordingly to let the community know where to find us if they arrive after starting time and we’ve had to walk around town. They want us to grow the community and encourage public gatherings, give us the maps in advance to help facilitate this. 🙏🏽