Gameplay is 95% the same as pre-patch now

AI Defending
AI attackers not making any useful moves
Tacklebacks - exactly as bad as before, if not worse

+ they sneaked kick-off glitch back, which inflates the scorelines in 80% of the games now, so people could say "but, but my games end 6:5 now, when it was 2:1 before"

GK near post is and remains fixed, no point shooting near post 95% of the time

EA really pulled off a nice scam with this for their shareholders, got their positive feedback from the initial reaction and that's it. Back to frustratingly bad gameplay, so the skill gap would remain minimal, thanks to AI assisted gameplay.