You said it yourself Deco. All we can do is give feedback hoping they listen. That's why we're trying to make more noise, because as you've seen already, even with some noise and proof we're told not enough. It gets tiring you know. We all want the best for PES in our own ways. But what some of us "critics" want are really very basic stuff that were already available in PES and removed, and no one knows why.
Instead of building on all the past elements that obviously worked great and got all of us onboard, they slowly removed and replaced stuff that didn't need go. Like, who asked for fouls to disappear when they worked flawlessly? Whatever happened to offsides? They're nonexistent now. Whoever asked to take out transfer frequency this year? Why'd the SBs become so passive this year when we never had this issue before (apart from 2011, and that was patched!). Why does the passing stat not matter now? Remember we dropped it down to 40 and it made no difference! Whoever asked to remove player stats that worked perfectly, like acceleration, shot technique, response, teamwork, etc? Why was team spirit introduced when it doesn't work as well as, teamwork, the stat we already had that did work? All these and more are just mind boggling man.
There was a feature in PES2010 ML that made that mode very alive for me, and I know you love ML so you can't disagree with me here
. The loyalty and happiness feature. It affected player's performance if he was unhappy! He'd want to leave or not renew contract etc. I once sold my keeper who was one of my best assets for a lot of money, and he had high loyalty and didn't want to go. Right after selling him some of my very loyal players became extremely unhappy of what I did and requested transfers! They felt threatened because loyalty meant nothing to me when money was thrown on the table 
It was an awesome experience that made ML feel alive for me. And for some odd reason, as per usual with Konami, that vanished from future iterations of PES 
Another example from PS2 PES ML, training players between games caused fatigue, which in turn leads to increased risk of injury, so you had to be very careful. Pushing them too hard and building up fatigue, the higher it was, the bigger the injury and the longer the recovery period. I once did a stupid mistake and overtrained/overplayed a star player who got a massive injury and was out for almost a year and a half! And that was someone I spent a lot of time and money to get. Lmao. Down the bin, everything.
Tl;dr, We're not really asking for the impossible here. We just want old elements/features in PES to return.
P.s. I really miss the pure simplicity of arrows that managers use irl to dictate what their team does, instead of all this complicated, convoluted stuff we have now, that don't even work properly
And believe me, I'm doing my best to enjoy PES 2018. Many positives in it and with a little patching and tweaking, it can be the best.
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