But that’s just it, anything positive we can say about Niantic at the moment is based on guesswork, “what-if”. If they have plans to replace the 3-step feature with exact distances, just freaking tell us, we would understand.

See that’s where Niantic loses my sympathy. If they had shut down the footsteps tracking (and subsequently the tracking sites like PokeVision) due to bandwidth, that means the problem can be solved by buying more bandwidth. Niantic has made a lot of money from this game (personally I have already spent more money on…