Do you consider a lot of the teams in the CL group stage and even some of the teams in the CL knockouts to be "atrocious" also? Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern have been beating such teams in a similar manner to how they beat teams in their own domestic league for a number of years now. In comparison, a lot of the Premier League teams finish 2nd or get out of the groups by the skin of their teeth. And there will always be one or two that go out in the groups (United, Chelsea, Liverpool, City x2 in recent years).