I don't even know if it's a hidden agenda or pure incompetence. The purpose of the AI is to encourage all the new players just that the AI is creating some issues especially when your connection drops and you have a mix of player imput and AI control. Many times I found myself defending better with high latency. The reason they are not doing anything is because a lot of people play only for the card collection and just play occasionally, with friends. That's why they push the league and that's why they changed the division rivals system. Everybody can reach now champions division and after that the rewards are insignificant. That's why they put the Star system so that more players can have the same amount of star. Before you had the cups which use to represent something, your value as a player. Now we all have 5 stars. Everybody happy 😁. That's why they took the window with the top players, so you won't be able to see the cheaters that occupy the first positions. Last night they had a gameplay based on passing, defending was not so dependent on AI and latency was not such a big issue because you could not feel it, and even if the opponents would score a goal you could come back with smart passes. Today they increased again the AI in defence and the only way to score is either by deflected balls( in a game I tackled a player three times consecutively untill he scored) or by high through ball over the defence. I am still waiting for the update, I played the beta and was ok but now will have to wait and see how they will implement it.