The community does need dedicated servers to rent, otherwise, BF2042 won`t stay afloat when it comes to player numbers.
We must have access to map rotation, game modes, tick rate, number of tickets, whitelist, allowed weapons, and gadgets, information about the host and ping, etc.
This is what keeps the game running.
BF may still have an All-out Warfare lobby, official servers but the server list is what makes battlefield the Battlefield. The lobby may only work in the case of BR, HZ, and TDM. The rest is probably out of the equation of functionality after several months of the release date.
