I get how that could ruin time with friends, I went out with some friends for poke-hunting and it was just us hanging around a poke-gym and them fighting it.. I've mainly been playing to collect the pokemon so I can't really challenge gyms or anything.
but I do like the concept that it gets people out and about and able to meet new people. which can either be bad or exciting (since I heard some people were using the game to mug people, so that's pretty scary)
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it's sort of.. it's hard to really explain, just how I've always felt. like I've always identified more with 'male' but I'm not male, but I've never really felt female either (and have never felt comfortable with my chest, like it's never felt.. 'natural' if that makes sense). but with chest/genital stuff, I've been on pills for almost a year that stop my.. feminine monthly thing, which is amazing (I started the pills because my monthly thing was tying in with when my lung had issues, and those have helped a lot ~it's a condition my dr told me is called endometriosis of the lung, where instead of shedding off the uterus it also sheds off the chest lining and can cause the lung to collapse/leak air~ but the pills have helped a ton with that, so 'two birds with one stone' so to speak). but with chest, what I'm looking into is making my chest flat, which would require an operation, but I've done a lot of research and seen a doctor on this topic and it sounds very safe.(though it will probably be a little while til I can go through with it/afford it, but I'm hoping I can do this by.. sometime next year)