It shouldn’t be intrinsic. Never used fastball until recently and I don’t think it’s necessary. My thoughts. If you use Fastball for a while then it’s gonna feel bad without. If you don’t and put it on it’ll feel just as bad. It’s a user preference. Traction was changed (I’m assuming) to be a leveled field so console can play with PC and not feel as sluggish. It also has levels to almost the same non-traction benefits as a scalar. Enables players that didn’t use traction to still have around the same feel. Fastball isn’t a mod that benefits everyone all the time. Sprinting does- hence why traction was added as a setting