NHL 25 Holiday Update Coming Nov 15th

A lot of the angst could be alleviated if EA would just come out and communicate what changes were made to matchmaking and why those changes were made. 

Something akin to;

"In an attempt to automatically match room size and goalie, we removed those options due to redundancy. If your team has a human goalie, it will first try to match an opponent with a human goalie (after searching for teammates, if the option is enabled). Then, it will filter out available opponents by trying to match the room size as close as possible after the goalie match. However, we're seeing issues where this process isn't taking into account the current RP level"

That would go a long way in quelling the frustration and sarcasm.