Clearly the decision to omit AoW from the server browser was made intentionally, likely by reasonable people after a weighing of the pros and con's. There was likely a meeting between EA/DICE in 2021 where this issue was considered and decided.
My post was simply a list of the likely SB con's discussed which won the argument. While you may dismiss the SB con's, it's clear that EA/DICE leadership did not.
You'll get no argument from me that a SB is in the best interest of some players and I don't blame them for advocating for it. But I think there's a reasonable argument for why SB isn't in the best interest of the majority of players.
Reason for using MM is VERY, VERY simple - they started developing this game in intention to be Battle Royale, probably very close to Apex in style. BR's don't need this, MM is working fine and sufficient enough. Also tha tis why they needed to remove Global Chat, squad menagement etc.
Fact, that Portal HAS a Server Browser - but stripped out of many features and not working as properly as in previous games - only confirmes that. Because they started develoiping it after turning WHOLE DEVELOPMENT in to more classic BF-style game. That is also a reason for amount of content ported/made for it.
But it's all wide spreaded knowlegde now.
