Tho I dont have an answer to your question, I totally agree with the opening paragraph. There is something fundamentally wrong with so called wonderkids. Like most of the wonderkids in my game (year 2028/2029) are so bad, its unreal they are called wonderkids. In previous version a wonderkid WAS a wonderkid with great stats. In this years fm, the quality of wonderkids dropped so much its almost unreal. I dont know if it is the whole game bug, devs lowered the quality of wonderkids or is something 3rd problem. Ofc you still get maybe 1 wonderkid with super stats like before, but 99% of them are just not wonderkid quality, doesnt matter what media calls them.
Edit: word mistakes.