I don't necessarily disagree with anything you said, but two points:
- As MichaelRDavidson said, you unfortunately tried the game at the worst possible time, with the last patch causing huge lag in FM and breaking a few things. FM will run smoother once these new issues are fixed.
- Sliders haven't been removed and they do work. It's just presets that are broken (and have been since NHL 24). I don't touch presets at all-- I never create one or select one, I just set my sliders when I start a new Franchise and those sliders "stick" and work properly, and I can adjust them in the Franchise settings and the changes "stick". To use presets, there has been a couple workarounds posted here to make them work as well.
