Never thought I would have the problem of having too many Pokemon on gyms until now...

Last week I went hunting for gyms to take over to towns nearby with a goal of having at least 10 Pokemon up on gyms. I succeeded. The next day I collected the 100 coins and saw that all my Pokemon were still holding. I was STOKED! The next day I woke up to see all my Pokemon were still up there and I was happy to collect my 100 coins.

It has been a week and they are still there!

All my strongest Pokemon were placed on the gyms so now I only have 2700 CP Pokemon and lower meaning that they get taken down more easily and can't really play with my friends when they do Instinct raids (like today we had one) so all I do now is catch Pokemon.

Has anyone experienced something similar to this? I don't regret what I did since I do collect coins, however, the game got way less exciting now.

TL;DR : I put my stongest Pokemon gyms and they haven't returned. Game got a bit boring because I can't play the Gym game anymore. I played myself.