There are lots of meaningful gameplay changes in FIFA 22, and if you zoom out and look at the trendline, it shows one main takeaway: Everything is more exaggerated now.
Back before YouTube and Twitch and always online DRM, developers needed more effective ways of marketing than just relying on word of mouth. This resulted in the demo, a free slice of playable content, letting people try before they buy and creating one of the most interesting phases in the gaming.