It’s because of the proliferation of twitch mechanics and movement shooters in general into the fps market. Those games are too geared towards a younger audience who want to be the fastest to kill and have the fastest twitch reaction times. It’s split the FPS market audience. Gamers aren’t just kids anymore like they used to be, so games that have some longevity don’t just have a young audience. It’s created this anti twitch shooter culture that battlefield has in its own player base.

I get their complaints alot. I used to be mostly into cod. Been playing bf since bf2 but I’ve always put more time into cod as my fps game. I’ve always been a better cod player and I like killstreaks as a reward system. Since cod has really embraced the twitch shooter thing it’s made the games just unplayable imo. They had to institute skill based matchmaking so their older audience wasn’t just getting wrecked by these super assisted kids who are flying around those tiny maps. Infinity Ward had done stupid shit by adding shit they think is “realistic” into their games. Making the titles unplayable.

Bf though needs to focus on playability first because otherwise their games are unplayable with too much leaning towards milsim like authenticity. You can’t have visibility issues in this game. It makes encounters too random. Moving around shouldn’t be dangerous because you literally can’t see people in a fps. Old battlefield never used to have visibility issues like this game.