@DaveTheBrave_USA Yep absolutely agreed. The squad orders is completely worthless, for what it's worth the leadership thing would change hands as far back as BF4 as well [unsure if it was in BF3 as I haven't played that for a long time]. But then again, there's no point(s) for following squad orders like in previous games either. Extra points for helping squadmates, extra for capturing marked points, etc are gone as far as I can tell. I imagine the pointer system (Q) overwrites orders as well so if you mark someone and had a point marked to cap it probably overwrites it (or I wouldn't be surprised if it did).
At this point, the sentry is mostly a decoy... at least it spots for your squad now?
