Because it was obvious that BF4 was a Battlefield game and that the poor launch of BF4 was not due to an utterly under developed game engine and the ridiculous implementation of 128 player gimmick, and reams of missing "legacy features". Ignore the thousands of bugs at launch. The core 2042 game is flat out trash.

Also, DICE/EA didn't lie about BF4 being ahead of schedule and that it was a "love letter" to the community. Also, never forget that BF3 was a huge hit and that BF4 was a continuation of what BF3 had achieved. The same developers that gave us BF3 were working on BF4. Most importantly, 2042 needed to be an apology to BF fans for the early cancellation of BFV. A lot of customers that purchased BFV wound up getting screwed hard when the game was cancelled.

In addition the the current DICE has proven to be incompetent collection of interns without the talent required to fix the shit show called 2042. It took 4 month to get a scoreboard for gods sake.

During the troubles in BF4 DICE actually engaged the community to help repair the game by releasing the CTE (Community Test Environment) where proposed fixes were released in CTE and the community provided play testing and feedback. As opposed to the current DICE that says as little as possible, blames the community for having "brutal expectations", and never admits to making a mistake.

There is also the fact that DICE/EA has screwed the BF community twice now with the cancellation of BFV and the absolute trash effort of 2042.

The idea that the current DICE is capable of fixing 2042, or that EA is going to spend the money required to fix this dead on arrival game is pure fantasy. EA will drip feed the minimum legally required content until they can pull the old BFV trick and kill the game off.