Battlefield 4 is better than 2042.

You raise a valid point if I was dogging on bugs and lack of polish, which I'm not. Imagine if you will a racing game like (insert popular franchise here) suddenly gutting vehicle controls and rebinding them to some alien layout- that's a flaw in my opinion. And that's all this is, my opinions. In YOUR opinion the gripes of veteran players are dumb, but in the majority opinion it's been a common flaw on a multitude of threads. I appreciate your viewpoint but I would ask that you respect other people and their views here, please. Name calling doesn't lend itself to reasonable discussion. 

I personally tried to get into the beta. I experimented with different controls and layouts, tried every vehicle and combination as well; the new layouts are trash. YES, this build is "months old" according to the devs and maybe adding a "veteran" layout wasn't worth the effort at the time, but that strikes me as a developer oversight especially when it comes to things like flight in the choppers. But that's an opinion I hold, along with enough people that I hope it's taken into account and added as they polish the game further. There's a great comment talking about how someone believes its a good way to grab new player, and that perhaps portal is where the 'veteran' players will end up living. If I can link it I will, it was well reasoned and well written! 

Thank you everyone so far for your input, it's nice to see other people's views and complaints or things they enjoyed as the thread grows.