You're in the minority.
It still shocks me (six months after discovering it) that on the official forums for all the EA football games, 99% of the topics are "Y DOSNT HARE MOVE WEN DA PLAYERS RUN, IT LUKS SO STOPID, FUKK U EA, U CNT GET ANYFINK RITE".
Whether you have any control over the actual game or not, whether the CPU has to freeze up your players occasionally or not, doesn't seem to matter to most people, as long as the hair moves and they have electronic flashy adboards.
I'm not trying to be a prick, but seriously, it is honestly like the people who play PES (not everybody, but certainly every PES player I know in the flesh) suffer from a form of brainwashing. They just can't see anything wrong with the game and look forward to the next one having new stadiums or more ways to cheat online. And when it's exactly the same as the last one they don't seem to care, as long as there's a few transfers.