What I like in a management game is the challenge.
I have to find out the several influential factors, I try to anticipate, and be prepared for, my competition decisions, and evaluate the risks and potential outcomes of my decisions. This is not a fantasy theme, so it is expected to reflect the real world logic.
What I expect is an AI engine that becomes closer to the real world.
1- If it forces defeats to keep a competitive season, it is not simulating the real world.
2- If it changes the logic in the middle of the season, it is not simulating the real world.

Any of these 2 options (besides my eventual sudden incapacity to manage a team at level 28) can justify that with a good team I dropped in 6 weeks from 1st/2nd place to 5th place and only now I will start the difficult matches.

Looking at other topics in this forum, there are several strange situations.
But for all of us, Top11 is a black box where we see the impact on our teams but we cannot find out what is wrong with it.

@PricopGeorgeCătălin said that we can influence the developers team to correct the game. But without knowing what is happening we cannot ask for any specific correction.

So I will hope that this is a temporary problem and that next season I will be able to recover my performance.