I kind of get the outrage. It’s continuing the charade of women and men being competitive at a pro level. If they wanted to add women, they should have made the game mode require a full roster of men and women with matches randomly selecting which team is used. That would probably draw attacks of EA being greedy bastards forcing people to buy more loot boxes, but that seems like valid criticism either way.
It feels like the laziest way possible to pander to an audience. Women’s soccer is definitely growing, but this doesn’t seem like a real endorsement. EA gets all the credit and can quietly phase out women players if it actually becomes a problem.
That said I never played fifa, and won’t play this so I don’t really care either way.