I hope no one took this crushing and demoralizing news personally. DICE has been ignoring community feedback for decades. That's how the "working as intended" meme started.
They've ignored my feedback for over a decade. They've ignored Battle(non)sense's feedback so he shut his YouTube channel down. Heck they even ignored feedback from fellow co-workers in DICE's Slack chat channel.
I give DICE credit for straight answers recently. Such as no mouse support for consoles, no server browser, no persistent servers, no map rotations, and detailing their plans for specialist.
I'll be playing the MW2 open beta September 26.