I played a lot of games since patch. It's funny to read how people are complaining about dribling, left stick dribling is still the same but finally we received an option to manually defend.
If you think that having 6 women players like pina, diani, bonmati, wilson or rodman in the team and abusing advantages of glitchy body type was normal state of the game and you are calling this a skill gap we probably won't come to any agreement. For me as a football fan this was really disgusting, because that was not football anymore. Really glad that finally we are able to MANUALLY defend this.
Real problem relies on how AI defending is and was before. It's funny to read those comments that after patch people will now play only with CDMs and rely on AI defending and wait for counter attack. This was already abused before patch and game was rewarding you for not touching defenders.
Defensive AI should be nerfed ASAP. The same should be done with R1 pressing. Distance between midfield and defensive line should be increased ASAP to avoid wall of 8 players in front of penatly areaa. The game should start punishing people for beeing passive in defense. If people would be forced for active defending I can guarantee that there will be enoungh space to score many goals without abusing any broken mechanism.