I could not agree more with your post, it is truly cheap fixes, and as stated in other forums they tend to assume players love high scoring games, hence the broken gameplay.
It is very noticeable how games are just taken away from you when you defending a lead or trying to block counter attacks. Closing passing lanes is a joke, because players are still capable of cutting through with curved passes, where your CM or CDM could win that ball, he/she just allows that ball to pass right by.
Fc25 has to be the worst since it's launch, what may have been seen as a change in how the game is played i.e how one will need to build up play and be patient inorder to score and win games, has gone south very fast.