I would offer a counter argument to this opinion. Its a death sentence to those who spent the time figuring out the system weaknesses and manipulated those weaknesses to their own benefit , in short those who produced mutants players ,tanked season after season ruining the concept of League football just so they could exploit the rewards of high level Asso competition.
As for it being a death sentence for the game ,no its not that , just a death sentence for the game as far as manipulators are concerned and to that I say good work.
However I can see no reason for the Nego being limited to the last week of competition , I think that concept is pretty much a dead man walking and is the second worst decision the devs have made in the 25 months I have been playing this game ,the worst being the stopping of the gk training which really was only a time saver for most managers. There was a better way to handle that problem but the devs went for the easy option and not the best option.