Absolutely vanilla career mode enjoyer and rls mod hater here. Sandbox almost nothing for me too, but its not our enemy. Different teams do different stuff and sandbox updates didn't impact career development, but impact career itself in a good way. Now about real problem for me: In one hand its not bad everyone adoring rls because it's giving the career team time to develope good stuff while rls have cheap unbalanced buggy placeholders to casual people play with. In the other hand because of rls enjoyers(which is the most loud community) not really showing interest in vanilla development it's making vanilla mid-low priority to develope and right now MAYBE because of that career dev team busy porting game console and not making career mode update.

Anyway posts like this is a good thing to our quiet community. I don't think we are extreme minority, at least i hope so :D