I do think this year will be still be an evolution rather than a revolution, so it'll be more of an aesthetic facelift in terms of things looking new and shiny but not being too radically groundbreakingly different behind the veneer. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing as my main disappointment is that the F2 field is thin (not their fault) and the F3 Icons are abit lame (kinda their fault).
Since the last-gen games aren't supported this year, i'm presuming that the following game (2026) is purely aimed at current-gen and with most game cycles being about 2ish years, that's when the bigger changes will come in.
In terms of created driver being available, it would have been nice for them to have the option. Then those that didn't want to use one didn't have to, whereas those that did are still able to. Then it could have even been a slider (yes/no) that stated whether the created driver was able to move teams.