Simple changes that could have improved this event

As many in this sub have said already this event was a bit of a disappointment. I understand the reason behind a low catch rate for legendaries but when odds and IVs are unboosted its disappointing to get a 0 or 1 star after 20 missed legendaries.

Additionally the fact there were no tasks to get extra pokeballs meant most people are pretty down in terms of items. I used about 400 ultras over the weekend and all my normal and great balls. It’s increasingly frustrating when you consider that there wasn’t boosts to drops from pokestops and even in an area with loads of stops you just can’t catch everything.

Gifts being capped meant I couldn’t recover items from that either which again is a simple change that could have made things better. I don’t really get the purpose of this being capped as surely it means ftp players will just run out of resources?

My final gripe with the event is the raids - why are we still pushing costume pikachus? We had a whole week of them and most people don’t bother wasting their passes. The ultra beasts should have taken priority with an occasional pikachu raid hour or so.

In summary I just think this event was a let down for a 30th anniversary special but would like to say the amount of free items was one of the few redeeming elements.

TL:DR - all my items are gone after this event