The most ridiculous thing I have ever seen in a game and I mean ever is that your settings and sliders seem to default or change themselves every few games or so (at least on Career Mode) and it has done for many years making the game erratic, and forcing you to play the game a certain way which many don't want.
Your game probably feels off because they change they default the settings. I change the sliders and settings to make the game play better than the crap they give us out of the box but no benefit when EA seems to default them in random games consistently.
The game is so bad that it can't even get the settings feature right.