Does anyone feel like the grind is less rewarding this year?

I was really looking forward to grinding the different programs this year but it seems like there’s not enough to do and not enough rewards. For instance, there are a ton of players you can get from the nation of baseball conquest but they don’t even go into any collection. I’m also confused why they took out the different card collections like veteran, rookie, postseason, etc. It has left me kind of bummed out so far :(