No audio is unacceptable.

Actually, the audio isn't screwed, it just might be screwed for some users.

To me, the audio in Apex is exceptional. I can hear positional sound from the direction it is in the game world. Compare this to games like PUBG where there was no positional information and sound quality was disgustingly horrendous to Battlefield V, where positional sound was problematic (and footsteps were silent), but the quality of the sound effects was unreal.

Sadly, audio hardware (soundcards) and drivers and OS and physical hardware (and user) can all play a role in whether you hear what's intended.