I dont think it is that bad, but I agree it seems the game engine now work differently and some things are less important then they were before. It seems to me that random factor is higer than it used to be.
On one hand it makes sense (we complained about mutant teams full of players 200+% white skills who alwyas smashed us) so maybe they decreased the impact of (white?) skills on the game resuts. On the other hand now if you train properly your players and try to make them better, it is useless, because even if your players white skills are significantly higher than your opponent players (white) skills, it makes no significant difference. So yes, they made the influence of mutant players lower, which is great, but at the same time it means they made the influence of our proper training lower, which is very bad, because we train for nothing and we more often loose against lower teams.