I don't mind the difficulty being turned up. I actually prefer it to be like that. It makes the games more fun for me. I'd much rather have a hard fought 4 pt win or so, instead of winning by 40 and I get bored halfway through the second quarter.
What does piss me off beyond belief is the rewards. Why not make it a guaranteed gold player from those teams? You essentially play those 3 games, and have nothing to show for it except for a very little amount of mt. At least give us an MT reward at the end, plus the pack, if you're going to have the packs be doo doo. Another example was the Thunder challenge/pack. I got Telfair out of that. I played 5 full length games, for a guy that I could have gotten off the auction house for 800 mt. Does that sound like good game design in the slightest? No.
Like I said before, this game mode has been plagued by bad decisions across the board. So much so, that this is the least fun I've had with MyTeam in it's 4 iterations (including 2k14 last gen.) If something isn't done to improve on all these dumb decisions, I don't see myself playing the mode for that much longer.