They lowered the number of games down to 12 (with 2 specials) because they DON'T want you playing squad battles, they want you in rivals, buying packs to compete with the cheaters and sweety nonsense that goes on.
It has NOTHING to do with catering for casual players
It has NOTHING to do with any rewards which are now worse
It has NOTHING to do with making the games more "meaningful" in fact unless you win every game 5-0 you will receive so few points it makes it meaningless from then on
It has NOTHING to do with ANYTHING but getting you to NOT play the mode and instead trying to force you to play rivals and buy packs
That is the ONLY reason they did this, because nobody buys packs to play squad battles, no matter how much the game cheats.
Anyone who tells you any different is a corporate stooge
