The bots are here to stay. This is why.

@Jesse165 wrote:

7) It would be a great opportunity to practise all of the vehicles. Online it is very hard to practice new types of vehicles.

I think this will be very nice to avoid all of those times I try to get into an attack heli only to have the driver refuse to take off or suicide because he wants his mate to get in.

Ultimately I think they will be a nice addition to the game as long as they are not janky and randomly headshot people. Will be interesting to see if their difficulty scales and how that would work on a live server. I've heard that this solution is already used in one of the Battlefront games? Maybe I will have to do some research or someone here can pipe up about how well it worked.

Also interested to see if the bots effect the server pop numbers.. ie if they 'trick' people into thinking the server is more populated in the server browser. That's usually one of the criteria I've used in the past to determine what server I want to join (don't want to join unpopp'd servers). 

It is kind of confusing to see all of the whining before we really know much about the game. I think people need to settle down until more is revealed. Just my two cents.