Does anyone else feel it's over the franchise is going to keep going downhill

Yeah, definitely a lot of people feel the same way. Like I wrote on the forum recently — here’s the thought:

Why doesn’t the NHL community around the world come together and start putting pressure on EA? Just like players have done with other games — and it actually worked there. Here, we just vent our frustration on forums and that’s it. EA just smiles, and next year we get another roster update, new jerseys, hats, jackets, and that’s all.

The quality keeps going down.

I believe it's the HUT whales and anyone spending even a single dime extra on WoC builds that drive EA into a state of complacency. Streamers exploit their viewers into donations that just power their own teams and hurt regular players, and the fact that certain resets for rewards were removed and the over reliance on Truculence meta fuels it further.

With us continuing to pay for an inferior product, they have no reason to change anything.

While me and a group of 10k are not buying next year won't be the biggest hit but it's a start