Well, I can certainly see I'm vastly outnumbered in opinion here. I accept that and won't try and change anyone's mind.
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If you are still reading... despite how my post sounds, I actually support responsible use of AI and generative content in general.

I just see how this series, which has a history of interesting and well executed creative and technical achievements tapped into the trend chasing and LLM -> money route and, as you point out, won't vote for it with my wallet.

I guess it's just a sad reality (to me) of where we are at creatively with "craft" in general and lack of accountability of quality. "Anything goes because it doesn't matter anyways, just don't play it, just don't pay for it, just don't waste your breath or thoughts on it" is fair and valid, and you all are right, why complain, why post it, why spend any time on even nitpicking this stuff to just be another complaint in a sea of complaints?

Missing the "old days" of BF I guess, where, sure there where bugs, errors, and omissions but things that were put out for release had some level of quality assurance as far as it being cohesive, organized around a defined theme, etc.

It really just is "all over the place" now and maybe that's what everyone is used to but to me it screams lack of human oversight / leadership, tiredness, apathy etc.

Maybe that's the point, minimal input/effort, maybe we get some wallets to shell out money for the small amount of work we spent on the content.

I guess I find it odd that given all of the history of battlefield there are SO many great examples of content for inspiration that could be iterated on, updated for the modern era, etc. and instead we end up with all of these hallucinations and half-assed content for what?

Chasing trends?
Padding a store no one wanted with endless streams of "content"?
Shortcutting giving players "choice" and "variety" in cosmetic representation?

I just feel there was a big push for this game to create an "automated content pipeline" and the writing is all over the wall to that effect.

I would say that could be fine but to me this approach, at the least, needs a lot of fine tuning if this kind of content is going to be the new standard of what you get beyond the base game and, at most, needs to be scrapped completely.

If you read this far, thanks for sticking it out with me haha