TOTY cards must be buildable. Nominee cards completely undermine the event.
I think we all remember the catastrophic TOTY event from, was it NHL 19? There were I think 36 nominee cards in total and you had to try and guess which ones were going to win TOTY and get the real cards with upgrades. The problem with this system was that it made it complete guesswork as to who was going to win and you were completely out of luck and stuck with terrible nominee cards if you guessed wrong. If this is the case for this year's TOTY event, this will instantly kill the game as the flagship event of the game will be riddled with even more need to spend money to try and get who you want. While there are less nominees this year, the fact remains that this system is terrible and it was one of the most hated ways of making event MSP's ever in franchise history, especially for the TOTY event.
I will personally have no choice but to stop playing the game if TOTY won't let us have guaranteed sets to get the cards we have waited the whole game cycle up to this point to build.