Niantic's always had bugs and issues here and there but lately their QC has taken a massive nose-dive, in particular since Gen 4 began rolling out. Between unreleased errors found in the game master to those that have made their way to the public we have:
- The stat rebalance that borked everyone's HP and its immediate reversal
- Mewtwo and Shadow Ball for about 10 minutes
- Giratina-A's release with Giratina-O's unnerfed stats
- Pokemon with multiple forms have had incorrect stats in the game master (Rotom, Wormadam, Shaymin)
- Vespiquen given incorrect gender ratios
- Game master stating an evolution requirement for Phione -> Manaphy (to the unaware; Phione does not and has never evolved into Manaphy)
- Luxio hatching from 10k eggs instead of Shinx
- Evolving Grotle not counting for "evolve an evolved grass type" research
- The first wave or two of Deoxys EX passes
And these are all within the last 2-3 weeks or so. I don't know what's going on at Niantic but they've gotten very sloppy in very little time with regards to some of the more basic aspects.
I was actually in that group of people who would rather have gotten the Shedinja. I already had a L15 96% not shiny Moltres from an earlier research that I'll never power up because I already have a L37 Overheat Moltres and a plethora of L25 Sky Attack Moltres to choose from. I didn't really need a second one.