Perhaps I am dating myself here but I have been playing football games dating back to Joe Montana sports talk on NES. Been a big fan of the Madden franchise my entire life. I know fans have gotten more picky over the years and beat EA up a bit. Some of the criticism is well deserved while some of it is just people jumping on board the hate wagon.
With all of that said....from a gameplay perspective I like what Madden 21 is trying to do. Keyword is trying. This game should have never made it out of production in it's current state. So many bugs and glitchy areas to the game make it nearly unplayable. I would support the NFL if they decided to fire EA after playing this. I'll go back to playing Madden 17 until EA actually tries to make a good game. It's almost as if they just didn't even care with this one and just phoned it in.