Much of the player grumbling about TAM with regards to the CBA has been american players complaining that it screws them over because it incentivizes teams to buy foreign players rather than paying the domestic players more. Most articles I've read about the new CBA advocate for more simplified rules but we all know that's not the MLS way. Could be possible that they trying to address these complaints by adding some other pot of money/rule set/roster mechanism targeted at increasing money for American players and NYCFC is using this new mechanism to cover the Parks costs.
its gonna be called DAMN- Domestic Allocation Money Needs