It's normal because most of those CEC candidates don't want to put extra effort. If one who graduated from Canadian university, worked 1 year in Canada (extra points for both) cannot get max IELTS (extra points here as well) and don't want to learn French to get extra points, then he/she can blame only themselves. In that sense, IRCC is pretty transparent. They didn't change points for those in Canada, didn't drop them out of draws by limiting to FSW only.
In ON, at least, if one graduated with Masters within last 2 (?) years, he/she can obtain PR through PNP. I would think that other provinces have something similar.