BF has them but its much better (lesser is better) experience
TLDR is EA actually takes a anti cheat stance, and BF 2042 / BF 6 beta reflects this. COD / Warzone /BlackOps 6 has 75% of the lobby running various cheats, ranked and warzone even higher. Part of that issue is Activision allows popular streamers or those that know Activision employees to be on a whitelist for cheat bans or if caught and banned they can make a call / emailto get unbanned and can do so with their friends. And their fanbase is accepting of it. So it normalizes it as to have a "normal experience" one has to run cheats, or suffer dying constantly (even in spawn). Yeah BF has cheaters but it's not as bad as COD.
Coming from warzone / cod /BO6 it's way worse there. On average 75 % of lobby runs some sort of cheats, minimum ones game controller auto aim boost (it's medium strong here by default) and audio wall hax (there's a spatial audio mod that tells you where players are by their footsteps / sound cues). And a lot of cheaters you won't see unless you have a n00b account as they run cheats to play in new lobbies (SBMM). On ranked or warzone it higher 85% or more. I actually quit (along with my gamer crew) that and Tarkov just cuz the cheaters were too strong.
And COD / Warzone you have to deal with getting kicked if any golden boy / girl streamer is in your lobby as they can kick / ban regulars while in streaming mode (the popular ones or ones that know key Activision employees / devs). I tend to go for long range snipes in that game as that's the only way I found I could kill them, with their cheats they almost always win mid range / close range fights.
The reason COD / Warzone is so afflicted is Activision and the big 3 devs for COD franchise are inconsistent to cheaters. Their anti cheat Richochet, is mid to far behind the cheat devs (and since its popular and cheats desired there are many cheat devs for that game) and the devs are kinda lazy. The second is top streamers / "celebrity" / influencers / well known gamers that promote the game often run cheats to look good (hence) and their fanbase follows suit. To compound this is if those who know Activision employees can cheat as much as they want and if caught and banned, they can make a call to get their accounts or friends unbanned. Also the same streamers that promote the game say its myriad of issues "force" their hand to cheat (lots of cheaters, SBMM so they have to use cheats to play in SBMM beginner lobbies / select low ping servers etc.
For regulars, there are groups of cheat devs dedicated to providing alt accounts (for a fee) with unlock tools to unlock all guns / skins etc, and some are even on a subscription bases or for a time they had figured out how to bypass bans.
Same with Tarkov, the devs were lazy to address the cheaters, and suddenly they started caring as people are leaving the game, and it's one of the top complaints, and a main deterrence for new people to try the game out. But it's too late, the cat is out of the bag, and too many players accept that they have to cheat to have a "normal" experience, like Call of Duty.
But less instances of cheating here. Some I've found, like the when I finally unlocked the little bird and how hard it is to use the miniguns, and there are dudes zipping about beaning headshots in one pass, clearing out entire squads in a single fly past. Or the guy / gal in redacted that I can see through the smoke with thermals and even though I get hit regs they never die and I get one shot body from that revolver (grant it is powerful but). Or the guy with the prototype.
My main experience is from BF 1 (but stopped main-ing it when Overwatch came out in 2016 and been in and out of it, came back in around 2020 when the Overwatch 2 scandal and Blizzard women scandals came out) and the speed / twitchiness 2042 requires has me as n00b player. I did play B0 6 and being twitchy was a requirement but I tended to post at a distance with DMR or sniper and get kills that way instead of the crazy juke / dodge omni movement gun play and in CQB levels just tended to give it a best shot.
I am part of team BF 6 beta, I really love that game and how the gameplay and feel is. I do play this game outside of battle pass levelling to learn how to fly and drive, something I didn't get a chance to do much in BF 6.
I could see why cheating is rising here, given how many complain how lame this game is, and how many people want it ASAP and their 2042 experience to end ASAP to get BF 6 skins quickest and easiest way, unfortunately is to cheat.
I think their focus is data gathering on cheats here, but the effort will probably show in BF 6.
While its nice to have a completely free cheating, this can only be done in controlled circumstances (LAN tournament), since cheat devs vs game devs and anti cheat is like a game of cat and mouse / spy vs spy / military development and progression of two peer adversaries / drug war, one can hope
