Agreed.
The main reason they did this as far as I can tell, is a ill thought out solution to the Server Quota problem preventing people from hosting their own servers/games. There were bot farms, which I only learned this week does not include me just playing against bots to grinding away the stupidly ridiculous weapon mastery requirements.
Instead of finding a way to only target the bot farmers, they went scorch earth on everyone who wanted to play and progress against bots - as was advertised.
I'm still hopeful they'll fix their mistake, fingers crossed.