My biggest take-away from this is that
It is time to detach MyCareer MyPlayers from MyPark MyPlayers.
I'm not going to judge the linearity of the MyCareer yet; it does look like the dev team is trying to listen with regards of getting rid of the in-game railroading - That is good!
We'll see if the career railroading is as bad as it looks on the surface... Overall, I am looking forward to MyCareer.
There are still a few questions and concerns I have - things like injuries... are they enabled at the start of the experience (before going in) so that players are injured as they should be or are players out for the season magically made whole as in years past?
I think it is time to experience everything and draw conclusions to the released material now.
Thanks for further clarifying things LD.