I have seen alot of people here wanting to get rid of it, or maybe it's been "Completed" already, but as a minority, please bring it back!
It was the intended behavior of the app that I used to know. Now it feels broken.

The thumbnails/Nearby profiles do not refresh whenever I do it manually (swipe down gesture) many times! I have to open another Maps/Google Maps app and re-center my location there, then go back to Grindr in order for the refresh of the profiles to take effect. This is time-consuming and inconvenient!

To others who find the auto-refresh annoying & complain alot: you know what, people move all the time, they drive, walk, jog, they go from point A to B always. It's the fact of life.
If you find someone interesting, then favorite that profile, and let people who are not near from you stay where they should be---in their rightful, real-time location.