Thanks for your post. I've quit to play FC 26 because of the bad rivals rewards. I was hoping EA would give us way better rivals rewards and if they would have done so, i would have szarted to play again - but thanks to your post i won't bother to waste my time on this bullsh it.
You are exactly right by saying, and i paraphrase "slowing the powercurve in a way the players want it, requires less frequent new overpowered cards" ergo less primotions etc. But we all know EA, they want money and not happy gamers, so they do what they do, in hopes some "not to intelligent" peoole spend their hard earned money in the store.
Also the whole FC IQ System is dog as_s. With the old tactics system you had way more options to build YOUR tactic. Now there are way less options to do so and most formations are pretty much useless because of the game coding. Same applys to the player cards. Most people don't simply use players they like in real life, instead using meta op women cards and most of the time the same few players.
Shame on EA. I hope some day they return to the glory days where they tried to simply put up a great experience for the gamers and create digital Art - you know, just like in the name of the company: Electronic ARTS - but instead of that, they just trie to exploit gamers brains to milk them money-cows. Misserable times for Sport-Game-Players...