I am level 68 / season 90. I lived the years when you had to save the tokens of two seasons to buy a scout player. When it was not raining tokens, greens and 7* players everywhere. No special events, no associations, no extra competitions.When, for every bid in the transfer market, you were losing a token forever. When playing from the pc didn't give you free greens everyday (and it continues to be like this).
When you talk about other managers, think that the game didn't start the day that you joined.