I agree. Difficulty is a huge issue still. The problem they have now is that because they have nerfed flat shot the CPU in my experience very rarely does them now if at all because the conditions to hit them are extremely specific. I can’t see how they are going to increase CPU difficuty with the top spin shot being the default way of playing as its easy and slow enough to have no issue hitting them back.
What the devs seem to be doing, is instead of making the AI better, they keep adding gameplay changes and nerfing things to make it harder for human players to just play the game. That is certainly one approach.
The amount of posts that people have made regarding difficulty over the last months, is it really that hard to change the CPU so they play slightly more aggressive while making fewer errors? The game hasn’t been challenging since EA5 which is quite a while ago now.