I've actually not had one glitch/crash with this year's version of The Show. (Disconnects, yes; they need to be sure we are not penalized with losses in single-player.)
Overall experience (outside of the terrible teammate AI baserunning and need for overrides) has been great, and this is easily the best sports videogame I've ever encountered. (Timeline? First sports game was "International Soccer" for Commodore 64.) But...
...I'm not getting next years because of how the collections were handled. In the 11th inning, now is the time to release a bunch of conquest maps with Awards cards both in the hidden packs and as final objectives. Ernie Banks price should have fallen, as he is obtainable by progress. For the bosses, you should be able to pick one, and buy the other choices. The price should fall on all three boss cards per inning, progress-earned from 11th inning choice packs. This is true for several cards. But Banks price tripled. It got a lukewarm reception when it dropped, and now it's at a premium? I can't get Chis Sale when the time comes because of the rampant price gauging. I'm obliged to pick Banks because of the price fixers. I have no intention of using him, and Sale would have finished my enhanced Red Sox team.
The Scouting Report awards were a step in the right direction, but I never got mine (even having provided screenshot proof I had enrolled.) MLB support, after doing a great job on the "42" duplicate card scenario, are ignoring my emails on this. Getting a choice of a free Joe Morgan or especially Vlad G. Sr. could be the difference in actually getting the maxed Ken Griffey. Jr.
They need to smash down the price fixers and faux moguls by examining the choke points and obstacles, then releasing free/earnable items. Some people only play the game single-player. They need to be sure that audience has some chance of getting the last collection, even if it wasn't starting in April. That audience can never directly earn any of the collection-submissable players entombed as multi-player prizes.
A great voyage since getting the game (with my PS5) in mid-September. But the ending is...suboptimal. I have no intention of going through all this again. They need to be sure all prior cards are in circulation, that all cards needed for evolution programs or collections are in-market or are prizes in the last active Conquest maps. They need to smash the price fixing. There is no reason they couldn't release a paid DLC awards choice pack. Especially since they keep shoving the All-Star/Home Run Derby packs in our faces.
The 11th inning finishes with 5 packs containing Finest Bryce Harper. What a complete waste. No impact whatsoever on the current Awards Harper price...