Sounds like they catering to the .001% of the top players, who want more food to eat. So they feed the playerbase to them. They don't want you playing with bots, because that means you won't be getting owned by anonymous "pro" players apparently. I have no interest in portal or bot play, i only play conquest as a bf vet, I'm an avg gamer but very competitive. but I'm in shock they took bot servers away from people to force them into matches they get crushed in. Noone really cares if they using it to grind xp, because this game is not pay or grind to win. And whats really maniacal, is that they claim they have the moral highground by forcing this on people. Because those good players would have noone to play with otherwise, don't you know that? /sarcasm.... So we are not allowed to segregate ourselves because the developers feel that is immoral. Because to them this is not a sport, "its just a game" .... Honestly, any person in the company who says "it's just a game" should be immediately fired. some of them been ruining the industry for 20 years.
One of my best friends from highschool became a famous quake map maker. I think it was verve that moved him to texas but he hopped around alot of companies. And let me tell you, he is the typical wokey colored hair fruit looop eye makeup guy, and he literally turned into one as soon as he joined the industry. So i mean the stereotype is real. He is also a guy, never into e-sports, saw competition as evil, and treats it as "just a game" has no problem hacking people cheating etc... This is the world we live in.
I personally feel now after 20 years, that all along its the game industry taking kickbacks from the hackers. So people at the company either selling the hacks themselves, or taking money for catering to these people. Because it never made sense why they would cater to the pro player, and not the avg player which is their whole playerbase and in theory their real paycheck. Very much like our politicians in society take money to favor certain groups, instead of the general population, that we are also not allowed to segregate from, no matter how toxic or "unsporting". etc... Gaming online is a microcosm for the human race and always has been. Its not a "victimless crime", it will be our judgement due to our human nature.