now a manager has to understand tactics & train correctly to make his team stronger. with that empty line up feature, it's just brainless selecting your best 12 players and letting the GE get the best possible result (also less likely to get an upset that way)
Yet that was the only way to get sensible substitution patterns, where you might see all round players (surely all NT players should be made this way) could play multiple positions. There's no way to do that with the settings we have now. Its not the blank that's brainless, its everything else.