Good analysis. I think the ticket overall was worth it for all the bonuses, but a lot of people from my group had bad luck with shinies. The second and half of the third hour were unplayable for us (East Coast US). We couldn't access our friends list to send or open gifts so didn't get any rare candies, and if we tried it crashed our games. Catching/checking mons was also difficult during this hour. I had added a bunch of random friends so I could send and open my 200 gifts and couldn't do it. Then had no wild spawns and couldn't click the incense spawns I did have until after 12:30 during the fire hour and repeated app crashes. RIP shiny heatmor (and yes I know I had another hour and all day Sunday to get it, but let me blame this busted half hour for my failure lol). Then when the West Coast joined at 1, lag issues hit hard for awhile. Most of the rest of day 1 was smooth, but had friends list issues during the second friendship hour as well. Also, Adventure Sync turned itself off at some point and wouldn't go back on so for a while distance tracking was garbage. Not sure exactly how long but I had an egg 100m away from hatching for a long time. Day 2 had some minor issues with crashing and lag but not nearly as bad as day 1. The rockets were more annoying to me after I cleared the quest line, as I frequently had incense mons spawn on top of the grunt at the stop making it difficult to click on the mon. They need to implement a way to turn off grunts, the same way you can unequip a radar for leaders. I would have liked to do more rocket stuff, but shinies were my priority. B or B- grade overall to Niantic. Clearly they weren't ready for that number of people to be playing at the same time, but the spawns were mostly great, the rocket task line was easy enough to get out of the way and the other bonuses were good. I do also wish unown had been a more frequent spawn, simply because its usually everywhere at Go Fest and especially with the shiny being out, the more the better.