I personally run a rams tt and I’m kinda strict about skill position being from the rams. because of this I cant afford to put SIE and SOE after the Ap change. I have started to see lots OSA and inside and outside shade from people running man blitzs and i personally have been getting bottled by them . I think offense should get 8 Ap and defense with 6, because for a quarterback to be viable you have to spend 1/3 of your Ap on them and then you still have a full o line, receivers and running backs for 4 Ap. Am i the only one that feels this way?
Ap balancing is a difficult subject. Ideally, one side of the ball wouldn't have an advantage over the other in abilities.
Personally, I'm of the belief if any side should have more AP it's the defense. In my opinion you should be building your defense to stop what's popular. But you should also have some flexibility to run some abilities for when you play people with off-meta offenses. I believe you need more flexibility on defense than offense.
I know a lot of theme teams are hurting because they lack ap discounts. And that probably is part of your issue.
I don't run a theme team and just use whatever players I want. Personally, I've found I made more sacrifices on defense than offense.
Having players you can sub in with 0 ap abilities is more important now that you can't necessarily have everything on your starters.