BF1 was in general a good evolution for the series and DICE’s heart was truly in this setting, as a callback to their very first breakthrough multiplayer game. Hell Old Man Murray even reviewed it.
However, DICE has a propensity for adding a shit ton of complexity and options and multiplayer modes to their games. BF:BC2 bucked this trend by being… simple. Simple classes, simple weapons, simple gameplay modes. They didn’t add random multiplayer modes after the fact like they did to every single game since, BF3, BF4, BF1.
I don’t know if DICE is capable of embracing simplicity again, but I wish they would. They’re very good at what they do, but they stuff their games so full of junk (even at launch, but particularly with expansions) that it gets confusing.