I agree that I expected a smaller decrease. Maybe like 1% or 2%.
PD: I dont know if im even happy of this change, for example on my team i did important changes on my roster last season, sold 2 important players and invested in rookies so i wasnt going to suffer with salaries, but its impossible to make any strategy in long term on this game at least on the economy area and i suppose a lot of users will be on same situation, they did changes to be more competitive on the future and now they will see how this change wasnt worth.