I am also very pleasantly surprised at the speed of the game. Even with tens of thousands of graphic pack addons and many leagues and nations loaded, it still runs very fast. Granted I do have an M1 MacBook Pro now, but whereas before I could easily spend 6+ hours to advance 2 months in game, I can go through half a season in about 4 hours. It's so impressively fast.
Hard agree, at the moment the interactions are far and away the worst part about FM24 - players moan all the time, and it seems any time you give two negative full-time team talks in a month, the entire squad will revolt. I feel like the interactions are far too volatile, and the constant - and I mean constant - whining about squad depth is incredibly annoying. It's so bad that if it doesn't get fixed for full-release I'd probably buy the FMRTE just to fix any stupidness that arises from silly and/or unrealistic interactions. I remember when the feature was announced years ago and I thought it would be a great addition to add to a more immersive and varied experience, but ever since interactions have been introduced I just find them an absolute slog to deal with and will almost never voluntarily incite an interaction, with either positive or negative intentions, as the outcomes are so wildly unpredictable, volatile, and often season-defining. Please, please tweak this for the full release.