@Zammmowow, you wrote that well. I was about to write a post myself, but I'll answer you and I hope many players will read it.
I've been playing NFS since the beginning, and have every game because I just love car racing. I've been playing Unbound since it came out, at first I played through the story, then I started playing online, and I was shocked to find that, in contrast to the previous NFS games, nothing, absolutely nothing, has changed. Some days it's particularly bad, sometimes it's okay, but you can say that 60% of the time it's really the case that you think your opponent is driving a car from another planet. Yesterday and today were particularly bad. You have such gamers in the playlist who really work together to win, e.g. you want to overtake, then one gamer hits you in such a way that you cause an accident, and then you can no longer win anyway. Or worse, the gamer in front of you crashes and is still ahead of you even though you were right behind the gamer. Something like that is just not possible in my logical thinking. That's why I already remember a lot of names, and when they start a race, I don't accept it, and if I start a race and then have players like the one with the Golf in my playlist, I just stay after a few meters just drive standing still, or leave the playlist, because then they are already so far ahead that you can never, ever win against them. I still have crossplay enabled, but I don't need to disable it reading this from you. I play PS5, but before that I played NFS Heat on PC, but whether it's PC or PS5, the games I finish #1 online can be counted on one hand. So now I don't feel like writing any more. Just keep driving and have at least a little bit of fun.