I'm about to lay some truths...this will be unpopular because people would rather hide from the truth.
A big problem in FC/FIFA is that people have a warped view on their skill level.
I've yet to have ONE 15/0 this year. Plenty of 14/13 wins. Getting to Elite is a pile of piss for me...yet I cannot get a rank 1, last year I had ONE, year before ONE. Yet in rivals I'm at the top. Rivals gives a false sense of skill. If I match a 15/0 regular player, I would probably lose. Yet we are both elite division. Warped skill level. I do the fundamentals very well. 15/0 players do the fundamentals very well AND absolutely know the meta and play that to their advantage, at a very high level. To do both is tough. I applaud 15/0 players.
I'm currently in division 2 due to not playing that much, and quite honestly it feels like division 5. The hand holding in FC is HUGE. People blame the game, and YES there are problems with the game, but people are just bad at the game at the complete fault of EA. They make this game so AI orientated in both attack and defence that people lose their minds when the new game comes out and AI is nowhere near as powerful.
People end the game cycle in division 2 , think they are good, when they aren't. They go back to being hard stuck in divisions 7-5 and blame the game.
It's an uncomfortable truth, but it is the truth. Play a game like GOALS and you'll see people call it back because defending is "bad". It isn't bad, it's manual. Your players won't auto tackle. Your players won't auto intercept. You miss a tackle? You are done. No spamming tackles. You move a player out of position? You are about to be destroyed. The game is manual and you'll see people call it terrible...used to hand holding from EA.
If people lose a game, or they go on a losing streak the game gets blamed. They cannot accept that they get smoked by players better than them, and the AI hasn't closed the gap enough.
When the game gets released, it's the most manual time for the whole game cycle - and people moan because "defending is bad" or "passing is bad"...no, you are just bad.