True or False:

Opponents holdings and actions are becoming less predictable? Also, incomplete information is trending towards being less complete, not more complete?

If true, do these facts have any real negative effect on the future of poker?

I think the question about opponent predictability might not be very important regarding the future of poker. More and more players are using solvers in an attempt to play GTO-like and GTO Bots are probably becoming more prevalent.

GTO play does not depend on your opponent’s holdings – i.e., you have a fixed strategy that is not dependent on reading an opponent. He could fold every hand on the river, yet you still might fold earlier sometimes.

If this is true on a large-enough scale, then the poker future is compromised for if most play is GTO then most of the time the winners are the casinos and on-line providers so profitable play possibility diminishes and the poker ecosystem becomes less and less attractive.

There have been good times like at the highest limits when the US players and many others were still there and there were big winners. There were good micro to low limit PLO games still some years ago but it got more known. The Eastern players replacing the US and so players made the games less fishy.

The needed skill level has increased but at some limits where the games have not been fishy since Moses if ever existed. The zoom has always been surprisingly awesome. The scores here have stayed as before, meaning the average skill level/difference stays as before.

Less predictable, perhaps (a more or less a GTO player isn't exactly unpredictable), but having a better technique can do better vs. many players.

Some naturally superior players stopped playing online vs. the more technical players but they played the highest limits. At that time, there were still top high limit players scoring just fine for the limit.

At some point (limit), there is relatively no easy money but that level has always been the same. One needs a higher skill level and possibly more experience, though I flew through the micro NLH limits with my superior technique, so it was much faster than it would have been just before it.

PLO took and takes a lot more experience and as so, the technique doesn't replace the old school skills there but adds to it. That is less so at NLH but any feel factors and adjusting is still super important and many old school factors are still more than valid.

We are not at the end of the poker evolution yet where we will see more PLO technique and more combined stuffs; technically still more based on the board and ranges plus the many old school factors that have been shadowed by the technical factor (some of them are old school) that has always been just the (brainless) skeleton.

One can argue that the bots are crushing but my humble opinion is that they have never been crushing but suck instead. That has been my opinion and my experience vs. the many free and commercial bots has not changed that as they don't play well for the reason that their technique doesn't understand all situations and they leak stack after stack in those situations. If your technique is at their level, you will crush them; high variance and high winrate.