No one wants them to be fodder, most rational people don't want them anywhere near an FPS game where automation of any sort doesn't belong. Your example concerning physical disabilities doesn't hold either, if they require automation to play an FPS game I question the developers for catering to it at the expense of the majority. I draw a hard line in the sand on automation here.
I suspect the population will be large enough we won't have to play against console though. The main problem was that EA botched 2042 and alienated and destroyed the PC BF community aside from the few of us that are just loyalists. BF6 will be telling on launch and on whether it can sustain the PC population separately. Here is hoping.