Can you state he was responsible, sure. But I also believe there were individuals higher up that made madden the match it is today. Rex was still the Mut 21 coins one to intestine M12's Franchise and replaced it with the dead version we have now. He had been there for I believe 6 years. He became a"martyr" because of him being outspoken against EA at the end. Where was he when he was in charge of things and gutted the old franchise? Of course he is not likely to take responsibility for his own contribution, or lack thereof, to madden success. 2K still has a yearly dev cycle, has executives/VPs, etc. . appease. However, it generates a far superior finished product.
Pretty sure this response was to quiet negativity quite a bit, at least until launch, so that they are able to keep their own M21 ad effort going without much disturbance. And I think they achieved their objective. When game launch will be close, just mark my words, they gonna come out and say this:" Sorry, staff worked hard, but we could not make any big changes so profound into development phase. However, this work is going to be put to use in M22, which will have overhauled and wonderful franchise expreince". Not to mention M22 franchise will nonetheless be exact same as M13. It will be exact same thing that they did together with M20. Since release, when sport was completely unplayable for quite large collection of PC players who'd Core i5 chips (which has biggest userbase). They kept telling commumity from their official channels that team is"working hard on the fix", up until NFL season was over, to keep sales up and after that came out and said that fix wasn't coming. They did not even give any refunds to people who got screwed over like this.
Theory: Madden just Sonic the Hedgehog'd us. Put out an intentionally bad memo about what is new in business mode so they could come back out within a month, say that they haven't had enough time to produce major improvements so these are the minor ones they made, and watch the community give them praise for doing the very least. I'd be willing to wager that whatever they add was in the works for a while today, and they're gonna find positive press for it now even though it won't be a lot. If it gives us a fantastic Franchise style. I don't care what tactic they did lol. But will their tactics provide us a fantastic franchise mode? Probably not.
My theory is a dev composed that part together with the intent to make it sound as shitty as you possibly can shine a light on how bad the situation has gotten. Yep. This is the EA playbook. It is why battlefield V is crap this year. That a way they could change everything back and say they"corrected" items then Battlefield 6 is going to be a way better match. EA does this all of the time. That is awesome they responded, be positive, but do not get your hopes up too much. But I'm praying they provide something good this year. It is only lip service and damage management. We've heard the same thing for decades about franchise style. It is only a corporate cover your bum PR message to attempt to get the heat off them. The sport is only weeks from release... It's realistically impossible that they would have the time and resources to develop anything new for franchise at that time.
At best this may mean they will attempt to take since stuff on in a spot sometime by the winter, or more likely, they're just hoping it is blown over and forgotten and they won't actually do