Reduction in talent has some advantages, of course. I think the main one is that there will be less difference between different levels of competition (D3 v D2 and D2 v D1) on average.
I think its horrible and extremely painful. Also not good for user retention.
My Utopia team cannot buy a useful player, I am in DIV IV and soon in salary floor hell. After one season expanding the arena I am sitting on a fortune of around 100k.
"Decent" players for this level go for what? like 300-400k? This is not fun. Of course some old manager with a few top division seasons and like 5-15 million in the bank cannot understand this.
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