What even is this game?

For the first time since fifa 13 I genuinely have no idea how to play this sorry excuse for a football game. 
I honestly need someone to explain the point of even having tackles/defenders in the game, because they do less than nothing. I’ve tried adapting my way of playing, every sort of formation/tactics but nothing works, it’s also gotten to the point where I’m constantly having to control at least one of my cdm’s so they’re actually in the cdm position I’ve set it to play, seems to be no point in trying to make a challenge for the ball and instead cut off passing lanes and wait for an interception, which speaking of interceptions, are insanely op’d even more so than last FIFA’s it seems. 
passing still has major issues, I can’t connect a simple 5/10 yard pass to create space, yet 70/80 yard lobs are done with laser guided, pinpoint accuracy with no issue at all? You do the math on that one. 
we’ve also been crying out for years to have the matchmaking sorted which, once again, hasn’t been addressed. With rewards being as terrible as they are in this game, we’re now seeing people purposely drop down divisions just so they can get easy wins. I’ve been a div 3/4 player in past titles but now struggling to even get out of div 7, I’ll admit I’m not the best player but I should not be struggling as much as I seem to be.

I don’t see this game improving, even with patches and I don’t feel we’ll see another decent title for a while, as long as people are buying the game, and ea are profiting they’ll just keep churning out these mediocre games.