Just came to the forums today to see if I was warranted in skipping The Show this year. And everything looks to be right. Maybe I skip next year too and try 2K as my sports fix. These are all the same reasons they lost me as a customer a few years back. Same Copy and Paste game that ends up being a waste of time waiting for patches, and grinding all my gaming time away only for the progress to be pointless once April comes around with the new game. At least a game like COD:MW from 2019, I can still play and have plenty of people online playing without feeling like we're playing on an outdated game.
There has to be some kind of new model eventually. Bi-yearly releases. Maybe a Fortnite-esque model that is free to play but with paid battle passes or something. Cuz at this rate, I'll probably only buy the Show every 3-4 years unfortunately.