On March 22nd, which is when I decided to play PvZ GW1 on PS4 I had an error saying that it had failed to retrieve data.
What it basically did is that it didn't save any costumizations done on your character on both plants and zombies.
Not only that but everytime you would make changes to your characters and settings it will reset everytime you restart the game and/or get into a new match which means yes your sensitivity and abilities will be reset to the basic ones.
Why this is the case especially for the settings is because your settings is saved online instead on your system.
However! Odd enough this doesn't reset whatever you got from sticker packs so your plants, appearances, and characters are still saved which I don't know why is that the case.
No, this doesn't take your online functionality away so you can still play the game!
This doesn't reset your PvZ coins and ranks either.
I have a 2 part youtube video uploaded that shows this in action and according to people in the comments they also had this problem on other platforms which makes me think this might be worldwide.
https://youtu.be/tLDpMhTMj2U
https://youtu.be/MKX9dB7NpPw
And as of March 24th this problem has not been fixed yet.
This reminds me of the rux situation in pvz gw2 except that this one is just annoying.
I haven't seen people shine light on this problem and I think now is the great time to do so.
Update: So it appears that people are starting to take notice so I am glad! And EA, no matter what we do we can't fix it ourselves so please check on what's going on please? Thank you.