Yeah, I do see the difficulty is much steeper, and I appreciate that. but I mean, the game can still be difficult without grinding hours just to find a pokemon. There's other aspects of the game that can challenge the player; ie double match, single pokemon challenge, one type only etc. Simply reducing encounter rate to abysmal seems quite reductionist.
To admins:
I was just wondering if ya'll could make the pokemon encounter rate better. Been trying to catch a cubone for hours and nothing. really takes away from the whole experience of a pokemon game when you can't even find a pokemon you want.