They've neglected Franchise for quite some time. Only improvements in Franchise that I've noticed was them basically adding things back in from years previous and labeling it new while updating the graphics to make it feel more modern. The gameplay feels especially bad for Player vs. CPU franchises as the programming has been not great for as long as I can remember. It can be fun for a time, but gets really old really fast. I made a post recently about improvements what would be great to have, but I literally don't even know if they take suggestions like that into account. Every year this game is released broken, they take all year to get it fixed, and by that time the football year is over and it's time to rinse and repeat. This game has not gotten above a 4 star rating in as long as I can remember and everything you just listed is why. I really hope they have some new things for M26 or I just can't see buying it for the same sub-par experience it's been for years now.