I'm surprised that point #2 isn't more widely touted. Even a month after release the game was still crashing regularly, gym battles only worked 50% of the time

I'm surprised that point #2 isn't more widely touted. Even a month after release the game was still crashing regularly, gym battles only worked 50% of the time, constant server downtime, etc. No word from Niantic on the problems or what they were doing to resolve them. I uninstalled the game at that point so I don't know whether or not it improved, but it's 2016 and I see scalability as a mostly solved problem. Persistent downtime a month after release is inexcusable.