absolutely no reason to ever use anything other than an LMG

Except for the horrible ADS speed unless you're playing support and the overall mediocre ROF.

SMG's are still the overall best guns.

It's the controller assists that turn LMG's into laser beams. Doesn't happen on MnK. 

What are you talking about? If you’re referring to the KTS or the RPK74, then yeah sure; they’re also pea shooters, and man do they struggle when it comes to taking an obj… They’re specialized weapons for that range, they’d better be good at it.

But have you seen the insane recoil on an M240 or an M60? The M60 even had random horizontal recoil before it became a thing with the current patch. With the M250, you’d better be tap firing past 50m despite the weapon being described as “lethal at range” or something. 

To be clear, you’d actually expect LMGs to dominate midrange, that should be their purpose. The reason they absolutely don’t is the large reduction in bloom and recoil across all weapons compared to previous titles. Every other category has a slew of weapons that will do much better at range, guns that aren’t supposed to do well in those circumstances but just do thanks to the design choices. And as those guns also perform better close up, it’s really not much of a competition. 

anyone that thinks LMGs are bad, it might be you thats bad. seriously, they are stupidly strong. they have near zero recoil at medium ranges every shot is a laser beam even in full auto.

Really! Since the update LMGs are in a bad place. Weapon balancing in BF6 is awful. The Devs have messed up big time with their close engagement range philosophy for the game. 

Yeah, I'm really surprised by this post...

I think the fact that the time to ADS on most LMGs is larger than the TTK on most other weapons is awful in and by itself. 

There are some very accurate LMGs with low ROF. The drawback is missing one of those shots between the cyclic rate of fire. High ROF remains king. SMGs and tap-firing ARs dominate LMGs is most scenarios.

LMGs actually suck in this game so much.  They're far more inaccurate than ever, suppression no longer exists in a useful sense, and the ADS time takes about 12 days in comparison to every other weapon.  Their ammo attachment costs are INSANE as well, since most of them have been dropped to a 50rnd or less, and just trying to get to 100 like an LMG should have takes ALL of your attachment points.

After hundreds of hours in this game, I would say LMG is the least likely weapon to come across, and the least likely to kill you due to their slow fire rate and moronic levels of recoil and inaccuracy.  Most SMG's will easily outperform an LMG at any range, and since they generally take maybe 1 second to reload, they are easily able to counter the large initial supply of some of the LMG options.