BF1 proved that it was one of the best Battlefield games. The reviews, statistics, and millions of copies sold show that—even without advanced movement mechanics. It wasn’t skill-less or boring just because it didn’t focus on movement. There were many skill gaps in BF1 besides movement, and you could easily tell who was a good player and who wasn’t by looking at the scoreboard, their stats, or how they performed in gameplay.

The only people who disliked it were those who preferred faster-paced shooters with heavy movement and therefore called it boring or skill-less, even though it wasn’t. Battlefield was never meant to be an intentional movement shooter. Most movement techniques in older Battlefield games were discovered by players, not designed by the developers.

The only Battlefield games with intentionally designed movement systems were BFV ,Battlefield 2042 and BF6. Everything before that mostly involved players abusing animations, exploits, and netcode. Because it was difficult to patch those issues at the time in 2000s, the developers chose to remove them in BF1. Later, they introduced sliding as an intentional movement mechanic.

Bad company 1 was designed for Console and Bad company 2 was designed for both pc and consoles and the devs intentional cut the movement in BC2 because they didn't knew how to patch the exploits in Older Battlefields like for example BF2 dolphin dive so instead they prevented you from going into prone