How is Madden 21 not as good as NFL 2k5?

@WrathOfHades85 frankly, I have to say that there are no changes made in MUT either. I posted a lot of thoughts on MUT Solo Battles, in particular on the leaderboard, since the Solo Battle mode is incentivising players to exploit the most severe glitch plays all the time again and again in order to rank top 100. I do not use this glitch and I'm really frustrated having to compete with players using it.

I know that EA_Blueberry forwarded at least the information of this block-field-goal-audible-to-punt-easy-INT glitch play to the dev team months ago and there is still no change made since then. my perception is that the dev team is on the one hand understaffed, and on the other hand (most likely due to too few developers) focused on the most urgent problems affecting the game.

at the moment, I'm going through a Madden phase of deep frustration again. I really do not see a solution how the dev team should be able to improve the game as it is on the one hand while trying to implement something new every year, in order to provide a reason to buy a version of this game every year (from my perspective, that's also the main reason why "the yard" was released this year, or "Superstar Knockout" last year).

I'm convinced that releasing a Madden game every year would require parallel ongoing projects. football is a very complex game, from my perspective much more complex compared to soccer or hockey. developing a football game of high quality would require more than a year, for sure. why haven't all these issues that are fixed (or not fixed) in the updates during the year been taken care of in a clean QA process long ago pre-release?

I started to take notes and recorded clips from what I'm observing while playing against the AI a few months ago. my objective was trying to help the dev team to identify issues, bugs etc. in order to improve the game. however, I recognised some issues potentially happening every single play (or at least every single time I call a play or face a play called by my opponent). a QA process that even comes close to deserving the term "quality assessment" would immediately recognize something like this and try to fix it. however, I still see some (or more exactly "many") of these problems today, even though i already noticed them in Madden 19... and also regarding new content released weekly in MUT (incl. packs and content EA offers for cash), there occur errors every single week (although they are often quickly solved)...

I will continue to report "bugs" in this forum, but honestly, I'm really pessimistic that it might change anything. I hope my mood towards Madden improves soon again ....