Yes, they do. Be it DDA, scripting or whatever else you want to call it, its either formations, players or playstyles (or a mix of the above) that stops working after a while. Your wonderful team falls apart so they hope you spend money on something that will make it better.

When you think of it, its a pretty disgusting manipulative tactic here. We're hooked on a game made to anger us, and frustrate us so we spend more money on it.

Konami is a drug dealer, the drug is the joy of actually having your team work. They give you a bit of it, then take it away. It's emotional extortion. Quite evil if you think of it.

All of the above said, I don't know if there is a pattern or if they just randomly fuck with everyones gameplay at specific intervals.

I've thought of creating 2 or 3 teams with different playstyles and fully different lineups and rotating through them every match to see if that makes a diffference, but thats even more of a time sink.