*rant* I've played 127 hours in 2020 so far and I can honestly say 99% of that time is because of mods, especially gameplay mods (Thank You
@incas36,
@bromi and everyone who makes this game fun to play).
When you play the vanilla version of this game it is such an awful game. A lot has been said about the increased amounts of scripting in the game to the point that the game is not even trying to hide it, feeling sometimes only a couple of steps from the just adding a goal for the AI Opponents to the scoreboard (slight exaggeration

).
I am now of the mind that gameplay features Konami add are included solely be able to script different areas of the game. Take auto jostle for instance, its automatic rather than button based so that they can increase its effectiveness for the AI (outright ignoring stats i.e. strength) and reduce the effectiveness / turn it off for the player.
But my biggest gripe is they take some of the control away from the player which for me is a terrible way of increasing challenge and just an awful design decision (who thought that it would be acceptable reducing player control, in a game that cheats most of the time anyway, as a fun way to increase challenge). Having scripts that when on make the players team pass closer to the opponent for long periods of the match or reduce the speed of the players players to allow the AI team to tackle (perfectly) and/or get up and to the ball after a collision first. This is most evident when you play a pass to one of your players but press the pass button again before it gets to them for a first time pass and instead of the ball being passed or a random collision when the ball reaches the second player there is a small delay in the animation or the animation is slowed down to allow the AI team to simply make a perfect tackle.
And this is where Pes is losing me. I think we can all agree that the best thing about games we love is that they are fun to play. Now fun in a game can mean something different to everyone e.g. mechanics, challenge, theme, gameplay loop but honestly pes vanilla 99% of the time is just frustrating and as soon as one of the many scripts kick in it can be nye on unplayable. Konami have taken the road that myclub money is the road for them over stat based and fun gameplay for us Master League (thats a rant for another day) players, this to me is very sad.
Sorry for the rant and thank you again mod makers!