Please read for an Objective Perspective as I have been playing madden since Madden 2002.
1. They removed the ability to see who you are playing before the game begins in H2H.
2. They removed the ability to see your own and oppenents' record in H2H to make H2H less appealing and fun than MUT.
3. they added thresholds to the ratings to get people to pay to play MUT more than H2H since H2H is free. If you want your defense to play good zone coverage, EVERYONE has to have a high zone rating. Shading or any defensive adjustment does not matter. A MUT team with ray lewis and brain urlacher wont have those problems, but a standard nfl team will. The coverage is so bad, that defenders just watch players make a play. They just dumb out and stand there like manikins .
4. They added skill Gaps to tackling and switching between players. So theres already a skill gap, to cover, stop the run, and call a defense which is expected. However, even if you do those correctly at a high level, a player like kj hamler can still truck your whole team.
5. The new blocking features are broken, therefore everyone is blitzing at a higher rate than ever before. In previous maddens, regardless how strong a blitz is, there was always a blocking scheme that can block it. Maybe it took a little while to figure out and setup, but it was doable. Now, blockers dumb out and let blitzers right through and because every single quarterback does not have quick draw, the blitz is faster than QB's release for the 1st time.
6. One mistake triggers a domino affect. No1 is perfect, but everyone tries to be as they should. In this game, if you make 1 mistake, theres almost no coming back from it unless your oppenent makes a mistake. The ball will just bounce off of WRs hands, on a onside kick, your players will watch the ball get recovered, DTs will get a pick 6, the ball will bounce off of 3 or 4 helmets before becoming an INT, on offense WRs will stop running in the middle of routes. Only way to force your oppenent into making a mistake without Madden's help is to spam blitz.
7. Random moments, defensive assignments change on their own. While on defense, your oppenent can have a player in motion or flip his play and all of sudden, your saftey will change a deep blue zone to a short yellow zone or your left corner goes from playing zone on the left side to playing zone on the right side, leaving no1 on the left. You wont know this is happening unless you check your play art presnap every single play.
8. The new motion plays on offense and new blitz on defense are very glitchy. blockers dont block the blitz, and defenders dont follow the motion player or adjust to it, leaving players wide open.
9. New kicking meter is too inconsistent and now currently madden claims theres "bug" in the game that is making us only use this new system. When the game initially dropped, we had the option to continue using the classic option instead. Since the last patch, no1 can use the classic kicking meter.