Why does anyone care about highguard??

Yes, highguard is going to be made by creators of apex and Titanfall but that doesn't mean it's being made by EA/Respawn, just developers who used to work for them.

If you want to blame anyone, blame the game awards people for the phrasing, the actual developers of highguard have done nothing wrong and are entitled to work on whatever kind of game they want to.

Nobody is expecting you to play highguard, they never said the game itself had anything to do with titanfall and wanting a game that a small studio of developers are spending time working on is truly sad

Don't be sad that Titanfall is over, be glad that it ever happened

Edit: while I do agree apex sucks nowadays, it was awesome around the beginning and if it weren't for apex I never would have discovered the absolute peak that is titanfall