Super star cup chase teams

It's been a while since I played I normally just play a bit at the start of the new seasons.

I played two games of cup chase and the teams are worse then my team that hasn't really upgraded since week one of season 3. I won both games by 10 goals with no shots against

Do people still find this difficulty hard? I would like to see EA make a new difficulty with higher rewards but I might be in the minority