BF3 inside 2042 feels good but 2042 itself doesn't

Ever since Star Wars Battlefront and Battlefield 1 the games made by EA/DICE with the frostbite engine just feel unpleasant to play. I always thought it was down to the changes made to the frostbite engine that made it so. But now that you can play Battlefield 3 inside 2042 I expected it to feel like playing 2042 with Battlefield 3 weapons and maps. But it doesn't it actually feels and plays like Battlefield 3 even all the muscle memory is there with weapons movement everything.

I hated Battlefield 5 for the seemingly small character models and random weapon control, same with BF 2042 it so hard to get a grip of any engagment it always feels like a gamble. Win one fight hands down while the next you lost before it even started.

How come 2042 can't achieve a similar feel as the portal games? It always felt they purposely dumbed down everything to introduce as much randomness as possible to make it possible for anyone to perform about the same, it feels like a 'scripted' online shooter. And I think with portal they have proven this to be true.

The end of the day it is what it is. Just hope they at least introduce a wide variaty of gamemodes like BF3/BF4 on smaller maps with different player sizes. Not everyone likes the forced 128 players on big maps.