As a fairly new player i think i should have some say in this. Lorens helped and introduced me to the raiding world, i started going to raids with literally useless pokemons to slowly doing more and more to a point where i think i always gave soksok or other guys some trouble, ofcourse they are still better than me but every raid i lost to the good guys like sok made me wanted to improve and i couldnt wait for the next raid. Within the 10 months of me playing, im still unable to beat soksok and other guys most of the time even with the best pokes and helds. And it seems like friends who complained about the raiding system always said something like "its easy for sok and lorens 6 op pokes with 6 op helds" but not only is that not true, as sok and lorens would outdamage you guys even if everyone had the best pokes/best helds its also unfair. Because i spent literally all my money for raid pokes, i bought the same pokemons x2 or x3 just so i have it for raids, i also bought helds for raids and thats where all my money went, because one day i hoped to be always competing for most damage and win some money back, now after all that training and money spent this happens and everything went to waste as even if i manage to win a raid people who didint spent near the time i did will have the same chance to win bedt items, an idea would be this: halloween and christmas raids would be the new system and old raids, the random ones, everything from idk a mew to sh ho oh should be old raid system.
; ofcourse just that i decided to spend the money on raid pokes shouldnt be a reason to change the raid system but what im saying is winning every raid is well deserved and costs time/money. Now winning the best reward by just getting top 5 is just luck as anybody with 2 decent pokes can make it to top 5, especially that raiding includes research, which i did a lot of before i knew what was where and what messages meant which boss.