I don't like the idea of bumping contracts every offseason just to try and force player movement. What strategy is even left to contracts these days? It would be a lot less work for the budget team and GMs to just scrap contracts altogether and go with automatic payments based on tpe. This announced change seems like a really lazy bandaid solution that takes more agency away from GMs.

Edit: rude of me not to mention that the other announcements are exciting news. HO's hard work is obvious, and I'm looking forward to seeing these changes all play out.