NHL Isn't An Enjoyable Experience Playing or Watching

With many of us in the community we are feeling drained playing this game. Many of us are very casual now which is why there is such a low population even with cross-play. Doesn't matter which mode versus, HUT, EASHL people are losing interest and with GWC on it's way along other tournaments this game isn't in a good spot. 

I want to say I appreciate the communication as it has been better than previous years but in saying we need better quality as these games get expensive each yearly release and for it not meet quality standards isn't good. The beginning started off fine for NHL 24 other than the Michigans and Tethering issue we had a good hockey game. Then these exploiter E-sports kids wanted a cheesy game which led to another re-run of NHL 23 seasoned with a gimmicky mess. 

I played a silver team in HUT prior to typing this as his players were faster than my 87 first liners? I never believed this was a thing until now and it turned me away from playing 1 v 1 online... I just can't. 

I understand EA NHL has a small dev team while Mike and Chris are new to the production area of the series but we need to find a middle ground between the community. Right now it's catered to the exploiters that whined that the game was too realistic and needed more arcade. If that is the direction what is the point of having E-sports or GWC tournaments? Nobody wants to lose to a messy product and it will happen again.

It is very boring to watch which is why us NHL Twitch community members lost interest and the population isn't as big as it used to be. Many of us moved to other games because well NHL isn't worth the stress and nobody wants to watch a unenjoyable product.