I've always felt it's foolish to pay money to **** yourself off. I enjoy it for the challenge of building teams and because I enjoy playing computer games and sports games. We all know the flaws — not counting a HBP/E as facing a batter, runners holding at 3rd on DPs, etc. etc. etc. Because the code running thegame is so old they can't go in and just fix a few things, and there aren't enough live players to justify the time it would take to reprogram it. The announcement that they were going to revamp live was silly and we knew when it was made that it was BS.
I also like to play war sims, particularly WWII, and have never found one even as realistic as the best board games out there. But I find the best options and go with those, despite inaccuracies in weather effects, air power, and so on. All computer games are like that to a degree; it's just not as glaring as simple errors in the rules of the game that should have been fixed when they were discovered many years ago. I enjoy the game enough to overlook its flaws, aggravating as they can be.
Ideally someone interested in improving it buys the game from Fox, but that's a huge longshot. Other than that, the best we can hope for is that they continue to maintain it. More likely, it is what it is. I hope you stick around because you run great leagues, have a clue about life, and play plenty of games. But if it's aggravating more often than it's enjoyable, there's no rational argument for continuing to play.