Ingress: Level 16 reached...

After long time playing google/niantic's ingress (the predecessor of pokemon go - all the arenas are portals in ingress, most of them created by ingress players) i reached the last level:

And the usual welcome package:

I am wondering, wether i should continue playing or quit the game for now or ever.
Perhaps reading this discussion (What do lvl 16 players play for?) may help me.