BF2042 weapon progression was way better

For all the trash talk about 2042, the weapon and gear unlocks were outstanding. I enjoyed being able to run certain weapons, attachments, vehicles, upgrades by actually playing the prior well felt great.

Did you know that BF 2042 had the same progression unlocks with rank?
Weapon Assignments were there for unlocking post-launch weapons which I assume BF 6 will also do.
If you played during the season the weapon is introduced, you unlock them through battle-pass progression anyway and skip the post-season weapon assignment requirement.
Only assignments which I think was mandatory was the ones to unlock Portal-ported weapons.

if I want a certain gun at higher levels, instead of playing well with what I got instead I'll just play like an *sshole to get that particular level without any care of how I got there.

Playing well still gets your there faster.

Though, instead of "playing like an *sshole", lazy players will probably just go into an XP grind Portal server anyway.

BF2042 was terrible. BFBC2, BF3 and BF4 progression was the best. BF2042 should be forgotten and never referred to as any standard to what BF is or was about.

prefered like bf3 or so where u needed like 500 kills for maxing a wep. here lvl 20 is silver, im guessing 30 is gold? and that takes like an hour or two... 

This post confuses me... Find a starter weapon you like, play it, level it, eventually unlock another weapon you like.... repeat. the fact that weapons arnt locked to 'type' dosnt realy change things. the idea of having to level up a specific weapon type so 'that you can use the same weapon as everyone else is disgustingly unrewarding' to me. honestly, the idea of a 'META' weapon bothers me more. this is battlefield. let me play how i want.

It's only confusing if you didn't play it and I never said it was a great game, I'm saying to be able to get any gun in the game but leveling up your account like a role playing game is dumb. 

By the way... in OG bf2042 you did NOT get all the weapons by leveling up your rank, a massive portion could only be unlocked by completing milestones with other weapons (or buying a pack;) for example: to unlock weapon X you had to get Y headshots with weapon Z (and sometimes additional requirements with other weapons.) This meant you had to earn the best weapons.