I have no idea how you can say the league system isn't used lol. Literally everyone uses it, which is why the game has received so much negativity. There are countless amounts of threads and posts about EA not implementing it into the game at launch. I for one don't even know what Discord is. Guessing an app of some kind to talk to people.
But I would guess the majority of players over the age of 30 are never going to see a poll or use a separate system to organise racing with friends haha. EA have just gone down the road of accommodating the hardcore players more than the majority of casual players. We just get home from work, do the chores and finally get the kids to bed to have about 90 minutes to ourselves. Whatsapp our friends, turn the console on and continue our championship in the leagues to earn those all important participant medals lol.
Now I know your going to reply to this and tell me how wrong I am or I dont have a clue but I dont really care haha. The amount of people who have gone back to F1 2022 now after a month of no update says it all. I for one know of 5 different people in separate friend groups who have all either traded / sold the game or just put it in the draw and put the old 2022 disc back in.