@Adamonic The working remotely may indeed have caused some of the issues in regard to bugs, but has nothing to do with the biggest issue, which is the confused design. If feels as if someone finally convinced a decision maker that a pure BR game would not go down well, but they didn't have time to redesign and create everything before the launch date. So they went with the Frankenstein's monster we have now.
Remember that Apex Legends released February 4, 2019 right in the middle of BF2042's development. It ended up becoming a hit and it's probably at that point EA told DICE to pivot away from battle royale because Apex was filling that role.
