Let's try to not reach to conclusions by just looking into this 1st tournament you've played, or just by looking into a couple of them. There have been hundreds of thousands of tournaments last weekend, you can't extract any pattern about how the engine does the matchmaking by just looking into one
I am sorry but you don't have the big picture here.
Matchmaking in Associations tournament is a complex thing, quality has a big portion of influence but it's not all (just) about quality, other factors are taken into account. Don't jump into conclusions only based of what you may have been able to see during last weekend. How many tournaments did you check? Let's say 3?. You have seen what, like 0.0003% of the tournaments?
As I said, matchmaking is not simple and you can't say "if this tournament was like these, that means all tournaments will work exactly the same way". You don't know what was involved in this draw against that specific association you got as rival. Also, all TE teams are unique, so for each and every generated tournament you have a unique scenario that does not apply to other scenarios/draws. It is also impossible to match 2 exact identical associations in terms of quality and any other factors, because as I just said, there are no identical clubs in Top Eleven, so there will always be some team better than its counterpart.
Besides that, it is also impossible to create a draw that would make everyone 100% happy, and this thread is a proof of that: some want quality-fair draws, some think it should be totally random, some want a challenge, some want an easy draw ...