Overall just an awful game

Yes it is bad. Yes it is unplayable. No i will not buy it anymore unless reviews all say '26 is the best football game in 10 years. Which i very much doubt considering the (lack of) evolution this franchise is going through for years already

It’s been this way for3-5 years. And all they will respond with is it being your connection. They think we are dumb and can be convinced what we are seeing and feeling pretty regularly is our connection or delusion. This is despite other EA titles  playing just fine and not doing this thing you’re referencing . The market is so important to UT that the thing you reference is exactly what keeps people buying packs in an effort to stay with the “ curve”. It’s always it’s most obvious when you’re doing well in Champs, or about to get promoted in rivals. What EA doesn’t see is that this mechanism is exactly what causes the ratty behavior of having to play a certain way to get wins (abuse of mechanics, features, formations, etc.) and feel rewarded. If they made it a fair and pure simulation, there would be too many people that were successful (meaning too many rewards and messed up market) and too many noobs crying about not being able to score. Instead EA chose to level everything and keep us hooked. Brilliant idea but you just have to accept that when you’re moving up in “difficulty” it’s rarely better players of the game and instead someone who needs the win more than you or you’re doing too well. And don’t take the “streamers and pro’s  go undefeated” excuse form this community either. It’s all but been proven there is preferential treatment there for matchmaking and rewards and all they do is abuse the newest “meta” with the best possible players, if you ever watch their tournaments.