Such league is really meaningless. However, I don't think it is easy to confirm if a team is abandoned at season beginning. As long as the teams have been managed within about 30 days (I forgot the exact period) at the season beginning, they should still be considered as active team. If they became abandoned within the season, they could not be kicked out of those leagues.
I agree that those weak leagues comprising of abandon teams is a problem for drawing similar quality team together. That's why I prefer pure random drawing over this method.
As I remember, league drawing was basically random but friends are tended to be group together in same league. There were some managers complaining that their leagues comprised of teams stronger than the others. Because of grouping of friends together, average qualities of some leagues are higher than the others, and I heard a few complaints about unfair league drawing. I could not remember any manager expressed desire to group similar quality teams in the same league. Probably some managers did but I did not note this. Otherwise, it should be the decision of Nordeus to make leagues with more severe competition so as to stimulate use of tokens.
Personally, I accept different methods of drawings so far I noticed. I just hope league prize or sponsorship will reflect average qualities of the league to make the arrangement fairer.