But it's not. The defending is now more a skill than ever as it actually requires you to organise most of it yourself and not rely on the

button to save your ass all the time.
The people in this forum that have played me online at some point will know I'm a decent defender as are a lot of them, we've played the game for years and we know whats effective. I played a mini league with two of my mates last weekend (as we do quite often) and we're all very decent WE players, been playing the series since the SNES days. I was up against Holland and Portugal and I went for my S.American team of choice Uruguay. After the four matches were played (against the two of them, home and away) I had not only won every match I played, but I only conceded 1 goal throughout. Now if you're trying to tell me the defence in this game is too hard for you to master then thats quite alright, but to make a statement about the defending being a "shambles" and extremely flawed just shows you either aren't that good at the game or you've just not put the time into learning how to defend effectively.
No they haven't, not at all. In fact the opposite is true, they've taken what was the best part about defending and made effective defending rely on that moreso than ever. Anyone that ever took the time to learn how to defend properly (and well) in the last few installments has no real problem adapting to having to do most of the work now, as we're used to it already. It's the people who actually want to score lots of goals without worrying about defending who are now (funnily) complaining about how Konami have sold out and only want lots of goals being scored.
The fact people moaned so much about WE9/PES5 being too defensive is why WE10 is the way it is, so Konami do listen, but unfortunately mostly to the idiot majority that moan loudly about what they think is wrong with the game and not the people that can see the actual issues which must be addressed.
Rant over.