Always sign every player from your youth intake and judge them yourself. Staff judgement is next to useless and the constant need to provide more staff feedback every year is making things alot worse.
Squad planner isn't a bolt on, it's a name change with a change in UI for squad depth. There is literally nothing new about FM23. A better match engine should be a given every year.
FM is being held back by SI catering for those with low specs. They'll have all the data on what machines are playing the latest iteration each year and probably fear making any sort of jump.
11 when I started with CM2. Now 37. Not stopping anytime soon but becoming disgruntled more with each release to the point I'm not going with FM23. Probably never stop playing some sort of iteration but they need to pull the rabbit out the hat for FM24 to bring me back up to date.
Dynamic youth rating is in there, it just isn't as dynamic as most thought it would be, much like how dynamic the new supporter confidence is.
They like to add "dynamic" to different areas whilst making them as least dynamic as possible.