Do something with these hackers!!!!

Disable your crossplay. Then you will get significantly better servers. Better in the sense: less delay and you can react better to fire.
With crossplay you are already dead for the server before you get the first hit. So you think players are cheating when they are not

EA are trying to get rid of Hackers -- I had an email only yesterday telling me -- 

"We wanted to catch up with you to let you know that we’ve taken action on a player you reported for breaking the rules in Battlefield"

Wouldn't tell who or what they did tho'.....

From what I can tell the Anti-cheat only prevents programs from hooking into the game but as far as I can tell doesn't detect cheating. It seems that EA/DICE are depending on reports for this but at the speed that reports are responded to shows a massive bottleneck.

It's a losing battle.

Maybe the best deterrent would be sending a message to the suspected cheater or a hacker. Tell them you think they are hacking and you will report them so he better stop hacking or don't join any more games because he will get investigated and could lead to a ban..

We can't be sure of hacking but  this might help. 
They might reply: i am not hacking., but that message right there might be enough to make them stop using illegal stuff...

It's ultimately pointless.  Anyone banned is free to create a new account and start hacking again.  It needs open shared, hardware-based bans.

Now the question is not whether there will be a cheater in the next game, but how many of them will there be? EA is not able to protect the game from an ancient cheat that has been around since BF1 with minimal edits, as far as I understand. This is just a disgrace. This cheat sniffs network traffic, detects coordinates, and they are not even able to encrypt the traffic. A dull company.

You can say it like this.

If EA has a hard time catching cheaters now, I don't even want to think about the scenario where the next BF turns out to be a success.